Grandma Quotes - Page 2

• A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Names, Grandparent

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed. With Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius and Writings, by N. Rowe”, p.590

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• We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandpa

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• My grandmother told a story that when they used to leave from Southampton to go into the City, because he had apartment buildings in Queens - I was born in Astoria, Queens - they had apartment buildings in Queens and Manhattan, different businesses, and she wanted to pick blueberries on the side of the road and he wouldn't stop, so my grandma used to throw her purse out the window. She never had less than $4,000 cash, back in the 20s, and he would then stop the car and she would pick blueberries. And, he never had a record.

  Robert Davi

  Queens, Grandmother, Cities

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, "Davi’s Way" And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

  Albert Einstein

  Mom, Grandmother, Science

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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• My grandma always said, "Trouble is what God uses to prepare you for better things!" If you have trouble in your life, you are in a valley. If you are in a valley, you are being prepared for something bigger, better, greater; something you probably could not handle now.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Valleys, Use, Bigger Better

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jun 26, 2015

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• I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith, God, Christian

  "Maya Angelou discusses her faith, politics, courage ahead of LSU event next week". Interview with Chelsea Brasted, www.nola.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

  Gore Vidal

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Perfect

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Grandpa

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony

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• 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

  Baby, Stars, Grandmother

  FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from May 17, 2013

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• Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

  Art Linkletter

  Patriotic, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• 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

  Fun, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

  Erma Bombeck

  Relationship, Fun, Halloween

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• The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

  Dave Barry

  Baby, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.54, Rodale

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

  Allan Sherman

  Cheating, Winning, Luck

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Giving

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• 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

  Years, Grandpa, Needs

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• As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

  Prince William

  Funny, Growing Up, Grandmother

  "Katie Couric Interviews Prince William, Harry In ABC News Special For Diamond Jubilee". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Grandmother, Cooking

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• 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.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Eye, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.181, Penguin

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• She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Past, Rocks, Grandpa

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.259, Open Road Media

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• My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Grandparent, Car, World

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• Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.

  Hal Boyle

  Baby, Golf, Night

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

  Joan Bauer

  Stupid, Book, People

  Joan Bauer (1999). “Rules of the road”

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• Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Moving, Grandpa

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  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.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Feelings, Tribes, Personal History

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