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
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
My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. — Colin Firth
I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page. — Kathryn Hahn
I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything. — Vivien Leigh
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
Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point. — Maggie Smith
Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. — Lois Wyse
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. — Sam Levenson
You might be a redneck if your grandmother can correctly execute the sleeper hold. — Jeff Foxworthy
Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren. — Grandma Moses
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
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. — Gore Vidal
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. — Sam Levenson
Great Grandmother Quotes
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. — Albert Einstein
The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child. — Barbara Brown Taylor
Today there are people trying take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen. — Kerry Washington
Silence is a source of great strength.
A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes. — Melissa Fay Greene
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. — Mark Twain
The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren. — Doug Larson
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. — Rudy Giuliani
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. — Gene Perret
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
My 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
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
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
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
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify. — Jessica Hagedorn
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. — Margaret Mead
I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk. — James Patterson
My grandmother is the black-sheep rebel of the family. — David Sinclair
Grandmother Quotes
NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party. — Ambrose Bierce
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
If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them — John Calipari
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac. — Laura Miller
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
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. — Susan B. Anthony
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night. — Sergei Parajanov
Elephants and grandchildren never forget. — Andy Rooney
In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother — Joseph Stalin
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. — George Brett
My Grandma Quotes
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
My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. — James David Vance
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid. — Joan Bauer
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
My granddad used to say, If everybody liked the same thing, they'd all be after your grandma. — Gary Mule Deer
To a great mind, nothing is little.
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town. — Gene Perret
My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one." — Donald Cerrone
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. — Gene Perret
Dating is so insecure. My last relationship, I was always there for her and she dumped me. I told her about it. I said, "Remember when your grandma died? I was there. Remember when you flunked out of school? I was there. Remember when you lost your job? I was there!" She said, "I know — Tom Arnold
Great Grand Quotes
They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore. — John Gierach
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of. — Emily Carr
Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea. — Walt Whitman
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures, although I am now busily learning the alphabet of their language, so that I may some day read what these pictures mean. — Mary Kingsley
In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony. — Theodore E. Steinway
The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and a plot that twists and turns as it hurtles forward. A grand debut. One taste, and you'll be addicted. — Keith Donohue
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end. — George Matthew Adams
The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies. — Alexander Crummell
The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth. — Leonard Ravenhill
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
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
A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma. — Teresa Bloomingdale
Great Grandpa Quotes
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. — Louis Adamic
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
My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. — Gene Perret
What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. — Bill Cosby
I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with. — Gene Perret
To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo." — Robert Breault
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet. — Gene Perret
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. — Gene Perret
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren. — Art Linkletter
I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture. — Susan Strasberg
Great Aunt Quotes
I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent? — William Butler Yeats
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all. — Fanny Fern
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. — Christopher Hitchens
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy. — Marcel Proust
Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp. — David Nicholls
My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them. — Laura Linney
The farm was a great place to grow up, but I preferred the Hollywood Hills. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her. — Sandra Lerner
I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men. — Dolly Parton
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. — Ursula K. Le Guin
I am the monarch of the sea,
The Ruler of the Queen's Navee,
Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants
And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts! — Unknown Author
Your Grandmother Quotes
Valentine's day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine's Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but now everyone's like 'Oh, happy valentine's day!' I even got a Valentine's Day card from my grandmother. How ridiculous is that? We stopped having sex years ago! — Greg Giraldo
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. — Doug Larson
As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother. — Prince William
Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs. — Hugh Laurie
If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it! — Hannah Whitall Smith
Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother? — Steven Morrissey
If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?" — John Berendt
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. — Michael Pollan
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. — Pam Brown
Great Grandchildren Quotes
I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. — Astrid Lindgren
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. — Paul D. Boyer
We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better. — Mitt Romney
I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone. — Sean Penn
Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy. — Tracy Morgan
Thierry Henry my grandchildren, hopefully my great grandchildren gonna have to hear about him because is super, absolutely super, top guy, top player — Martin Tyler
The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia. — Sparky Anderson
What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren? — Richard Rorty
My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather. — Leonard Marx
"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive. — Gene Perret
My great grandma always told me to drink a lot of milk because it's good for the skin. — Barbara Palvin
I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um,
it was a combination of peyote and preserves, and it was this hallucinogenic jam. — Eddie Vedder
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it. — Zach Anner
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. — William Shakespeare
Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could have been, 'America is a great country because of canned ravioli. — Laurie Halse Anderson
I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the '40s, my mom was a dancer, she met my dad on the road when he was on tour in the '60s. Music is my heart and soul, it's my love. — Taryn Manning
I always carry pictures of my children and grandchildren, which is what makes it all worthwhile. It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in Alice in Wonderland or a doll with grandma's dress. — Colleen Atwood
My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her. — Akeem Ayers
I love leather and it's great to be a bad girl at times. But there is a time and place for everything. When I'm with Grandma it's flowers, and when I'm out on the town scoping guys, you know. — Eliza Dushku
My parents always talk about Puerto Rico. My dad's whole family lives in Puerto Rico. My great grandma lives in Puerto Rico and I got to meet her a couple years ago. — Danny Garcia
Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend America’s beauty -- from the oil spillers, the clear-cutters and the mountaintop removers. Deep patriots don't just visit the Statue of Liberty and send a postcard home to grandma. We defend the principles upon which that great monument was founded -- 'give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' — Van Jones
Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his temper with everyone around him who isn’t in childbirth. And he has yet to start shooting lighting bolts at people. Poor Damien still has a burn scar.” – Kat — Sherrilyn Kenyon
All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone. — Karen Marie Moning
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