My Grandmother Quotes

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.

Use your internal grandmother for guidance and advice.

Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

Through my grandmother's eyes, I can see more clearly the way things used to be, the way things ought to be, and most important of all, the way things really are.

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

My grandmother always would say, "This, too, shall pass." It is always true.

Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

One only has an adventure when one makes a mistake, but [as] my grandmother used to say: "You don't have to get out of trouble if you don't get into trouble."

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.

It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.

I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids.

My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.

Self-love is part of your birthright. I'm excited to be sharing this message to "beautiful girls" everywhere, including those disguised as grandmothers.

I'm not drunk onstage, although I've done that a couple of times when I was younger. It's partly just the way I talk - I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I'm your 150-year-old grandmother.

My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot of talent, she painted extremely well. She was quite a strong factor in my life.

The word good has many meanings.

He's an American, qualified to play for Wales because he has a Welsh grandmother, who was on the bench against Switzerland.

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

People have asked me, what about your tattoos when you're ninety? Why would it bother me then? I would still want to get tattooed even when I'm a grandmother.

I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord.

My grandmother made dying her life's work.

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

My grandmother used to say, "Sometimes the loudest person in the room doesn't know what they're talking about." Or isn't secure enough in his or her own views to be able to listen to others.

My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.