Quotes about grandmother
grandmother care doe
My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity. Prince William
grandmother long enough
I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators. Mother Jones
grandmother atlas my-grandmother
My grandmother is a famous atlas. Joanna Lumley
grandmother people anxious
We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see. George MacDonald
grandmother people purpose
My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose. Emily Levine
grandmother grandfather great-grandfather
My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University. Joe Biden
grandmother auntie graves
I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave. Joan Crawford
grandmother actresses blame
I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress. Joan Collins
grandmother sheep racism
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism. Lisa Bonet
grandmother faces mouths
In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth. Mona Simpson
grandmother dating lovely
Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist. Maggie Stiefvater
grandmother yards grand-mother
The word good has many meanings... Gilbert K. Chesterton
grandmother two julia
I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth. Julie Andrews
grandmother past voice
Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was it always this way? Did those with passage booked on death's silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed? Kate Morton
grandmother stories taught
Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything." Langston Hughes
grandmother trying my-grandmother
Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try." Joy Bryant
grandmother roof my-grandmother
I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I was painfully aware of what it was like to live with limited resources and a certain level of uncertainty.
grandmother green buying
With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.
grandmother age fifteen
At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general. Jung Chang
grandmother saving charity
My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.' Patrick Schwarzenegger
grandmother play goal
Some day I want to play a grandmother. And a foxy one at that! Pam Grier
grandmother thinking names
Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything...It was a wonder he didn't drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade. Julia Quinn
grandmother strange photo-shoots
Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots! Neneh Cherry
grandmother missing scar
I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left? Jodi Picoult
grandmother remember forget
I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.
grandmother church should
My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it. Muddy Waters
grandmother boxing tears
Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head. Muhammad Ali
grandmother flirting
I'll flirt with anyone from garbagemen to grandmothers. Madonna Ciccone
grandmother past each-day
My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did. Marian Seldes
grandmother past ideas
With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations? Nathan Myhrvold
grandmother feels
I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't. Priscilla Presley
grandmother clothes knowing
I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life. Oprah Winfrey
grandmother men hats
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats. Margaret Deland