Quotes about grandmother
grandmother grandparent cooking
My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking. Kenneth Cranham
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 want taste
Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail. Lois Wyse
grandmother grandchildren grandpa
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
grandmother grandparent house
Every house needs a grandmother in it. Louisa May Alcott
grandmother kitchen looks
My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat! Edie Brickell
grandmother men good-man
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. Gilbert K. Chesterton
grandmother atlanta names
If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink? John Berendt
grandmother night government
My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged. Jimmy Wales
grandmother two today
There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows. James Patterson
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 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 glasses years
My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older. M. Night Shyamalan
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 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 film theater
I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film. Romany Malco
grandmother grandparent grandfather
You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what. Sam Levenson
grandmother names dancing
What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it. Sally Rand
grandmother science men
The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother. Ralph Waldo Emerson
grandmother average years
Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother. Terry Pratchett
grandmother stable my-grandmother
I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me. Marc Jacobs
grandmother people next
My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher or wherever and tell people, 'My grandson is going to be the next Calvin Klein.'
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 skills decision
I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome. Helen McCrory
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