When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything. — Maggie Smith
Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point. — Maggie Smith
My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping. — Rita Rudner
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. — Henny Youngman
Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land. — John Mellencamp
You might be a redneck if your grandmother can correctly execute the sleeper hold. — Jeff Foxworthy
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. — Sam Levenson
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. — Ellen DeGeneres
I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything. — Vivien Leigh
I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page. — Kathryn Hahn
Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother. — Margaret Whitlam
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. — Lois Wyse
Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren. — Grandma Moses
This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven. — Rick Bragg
A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up. — Erma Bombeck
Short Granny Quotes
Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand. — Queen Mary
You bet your Grannie's Panties I will. — Kim Harrison
And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. — Terry Pratchett
My dandy voice makes the most anti-choice granny's panties moist. — MC Paul Barman
A canner exceedingly cannyOne morning remarked to his granny: — Carolyn Wells
[Queen Elizabeth] is just the granny queen! She's our granny queen who shakes people's hands! — Vanessa Kirby
My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television. — Joni Mitchell
I defy anybody to not look cool with the guns. My granny could look cool doing that! — Simon Pegg
Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand. — Mary of Teck
And turns out, it's not Republicans throwing granny off a cliff... It's the Fed!? — Neil Cavuto
My Grandma Quotes
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. — Albert Einstein
My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew. — James David Vance
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. — Lord Chesterfield
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. — Margaret Mead
My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. — James David Vance
My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid. — Joan Bauer
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. — Gene Perret
My granddad used to say, If everybody liked the same thing, they'd all be after your grandma. — Gary Mule Deer
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. — Ogden Nash
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. — Lois Wyse
Grandmother Quotes
My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well. — Kevin Gates
I'd RKO my own grandmother if it meant keeping this title. Then I'd RKO your grandmother just to see the look on her face. — Randy Orton
NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party. — Ambrose Bierce
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
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
I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was dead her heart was still beating. I though, "we've never had a democrat in the family before". — Emo Philips
The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today — Matilda Joslyn Gage
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. — Gore Vidal
Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. — Lois Wyse
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded. — Loni Anderson
Grandma Quotes
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. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
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. — Barbara Billingsley
We have fans in high school, all the way up to grandmas and 40-year-old housewives. College frat guys. It's all over the map. — Joe Gatto
All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven. — Carolyn Porco
May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary. — Donald Glover
I shot that sucker right in the gumpy." Grandma Mazur — Janet Evanovich
We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong. — Steven Tyler
Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME! — Dave Niehaus
People get burned out in big families, you can even see it in the naming of children. Like the first kid, "You were named after Grandma." The seventh kid, "You were named after a sandwich I had. Now get your brother, Reuben." — Jim Gaffigan
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town. — Gene Perret
Grandparent Quotes
There is no death, only a change of worlds. — Chief Seattle
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. — Sam Levenson
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. — Jason Alexander
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. — Alan Dundes
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. — Alex Haley
Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. — Bryan Clay
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you. — Studs Terkel
Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family. — Henry B. Eyring
My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain. — Jeff Ross
Grandparents Quotes
Love your parents because you don’t know what will happen everyday. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. — Ralph Ellison
Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them. — Jay Kesler
Elephants and grandchildren never forget. — Andy Rooney
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. — Eric Hoffer
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. — Gail Buckley
None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends. — Dan Buettner
Granny Sheeran told me when I'm looking for a partner to fall in love with their eyes cause eyes are the only things that don't age, so if you fall in love with their eyes you'll be in love forever. — Ed Sheeran
By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made. — Kate Middleton
When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny. — Stephanie Beacham
I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat. — Brian Clough
You might be a redneck if you stand under the mistletoe at Christmas and wait for Granny and cousin Sue-Ellen to walk by. — Jeff Foxworthy
Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again. — John Cleese
My mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch 'Come Dancing.' It was actually my granny who was the biggest fan; she loved the show, and she passed on her passion for it to me. I loved the dancing but also the frocks and the glamour. — Cherie Lunghi
I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and those frightful things - what are they called? - hamsters: all die like flies. So there's no point avoiding it. — Raymond Briggs
I never thought my granny, somebody that was born down South, who witnessed America when it was segregated, would see, in her lifetime, an African-American in office as the President of the United States. It's major, it's a real historic day. — Nipsey Hussle
He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success. — Gary Lineker
I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of burning grannies. All texting eachother because they've given up on speech. — Dylan Moran
I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and ice cream socials, about ladies leaving calling cards and the milkman with his horse-drawn wagon, I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny's childhood-a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace — Ann M. Martin
Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was. — Terry Pratchett
I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia. — Daniela Hantuchova
You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next. — Dean Koontz
I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest. — Terry Pratchett
I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny! — Arca
It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others - the Dryad, but my real name is Memory. It is I who sits on a tree that keeps on growing, and growing, it is I who reminisces and tells stories. — Hans Christian Andersen
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?" — Keith Waterhouse
I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is interested, you know you're on to a winner. — Davina McCall
Do you know how wizards like to be buried?" "Yes!" "Well, how?" Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs. "Reluctantly. — Terry Pratchett
Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. — Terry Pratchett
When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. — Terry Pratchett
Unlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don't go in much for the structured approach to career progression. It's up to each individual witch to take on a girl to hand the area over to when she dies. Witches are not by nature gregarious, at least with other witches, and they certainly don't have leaders.
Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have. — Terry Pratchett
Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else. — Terry Pratchett
After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead. — Jimmy Carr
Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.'
Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening.
Excursions', said Magrat patienly.
Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said.
Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can recover from all them alarums. — Terry Pratchett
My first professional audition - god, I've never told anybody about this - was for a test commercial, I think it was for Xbox. It involved me getting kidnapped by a granny who wanted to play the Xbox. It was very weird and I definitely had no idea what I was doing. I actually got the gig. It wasn't a commercial; it was what directors did when they wanted to show the company what they would do with a commercial. — Henry Lloyd-Hughes
A lot of my songs are very personal, always, but this one felt like a memoir. I almost called it Hallucinated Memoir. "Granny" is a hallucinated memoir. It's straight-up symbolism for my life, in many ways. — Vic Chesnutt
If you have a 2-year-old who is non-verbal, don't wait until you get a diagnosis at 4. The child needs one-on-one teaching with an effective teacher now. This can be a grandmother or a teacher or someone from the community. Grandmothers are especially great. There are a lot of grannies around. Go to your church for help. — Temple Grandin
My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood. — Curtis Stone
Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought. — Terry Pratchett
Granny Weatherwas was not a jouster in the lists of love, but, as an intelligent onlooker, she knew how the game was played. — Terry Pratchett
Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination. — Terry Pratchett
A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because everything in the woods is exactly as it seems. — Angela Carter
I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow. — Terry Pratchett
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