Grandma Quotes

My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.

' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk.

I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there.

Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

I would love to do top of pops as a grandma.

Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough.

But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'

My grandma was a very traditional woman but, at the same time, would want me to have kids.

I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

My first CD that I had was the Ying Yang Twinz, and my grandma bought it for me.

Honestly, I think my grandma got it from a thrift store or something. She just got it for me. It was in downtown Philadelphia. And I would listen to it. I liked it. None of my friends did, though, but I liked it.

The first album I bought, I didn't even buy it.

My grandma got Mike Jones and Bow Wow's 'Wanted' a little later. Matter of fact Ying Yang Twins' 'U.S.A. Still United' was the first album, but Mike Jones was the first album I really love.

I saw Marilyn Manson. He had, like, the platinum grills, and that's when I got my first ones. And honestly, I didn't even buy them. My grandma bought those. I paid her back right away, though.

I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It's, like, a suburb in the area; it's middle-class. But I used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six.

I got my way with my grandma. I used to get whoopings with my mom, but my grandma spoiled me.

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.

But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.