My Grandmother Quotes

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.

My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome.

The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.

I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.

Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.

Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.

My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a democrat in the family.

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.

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.

Always and Forever is a Grandmothers love

I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

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.'

My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.