My Grandmother Quotes

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother.

Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .

I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.

Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane) It’s amazing the lies we tell other people, isn’t it? (Sunshine's grandmother)

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you're quite perky and already quite switched on.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

A great tribute, is expressing the great love for a Grandmother we share with our children.

I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with her has no imagination.

Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.

That's not to say I came from the streets or anything - most of the time I was on my grandmother's back porch. I was kept in a constant state of amniotic fluid.

When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.

Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself!

You made a lifetime commitment before God and the world. A silly thing like a divorce doesn’t reverse it.

The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.

She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.

Children should never have baths, ’ my grandmother said. ‘It's a dangerous habit.’‘I agree, Grandmamma.

My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.

She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.

It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight.

At the time, however, I didn't realize the extent of my granddaughter's sensitivity - or her loneliness. I thought only of myself. Of my own sensitivity and my own loneliness.

Over the water of time I call to youIn a language I do not know.

And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer.

My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

My grandmother would start making her meat sauce at 7 in the morning on Sunday, and within five or six hours, that smell would be all through the house.

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.