Grandmother Quotes - Page 2

• The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

  Doug Larson

  Grandchildren, Ideas, Views

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• Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.

  Liv Ullmann

  Baby, Grandma, Grandchildren

  Liv Ullmann (1979). “Without Makeup, Liv Ullmann: A Photo-biography”

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

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Grandma, Names

  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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• 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, Grandma, 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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• An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

  Gene Perret

  Grandchildren, Grandparent, Age

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

  Doug Larson

  Grandma, Fighting, Grandchildren

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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Good Man, Yards

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• There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Two, Diversity, Political

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.643, Collector's Library

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• When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

  Ogden Nash

  Grandma, Grandchildren, Doors

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• 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

  Funny, Brother, Sibling

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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

  Grandma, Grandchildren, Giving

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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

  Grandma, Grandchildren, Grandpa

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• The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.

  Barack Obama

  White, Racism, Typical

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• 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

  Sheep, Racism, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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, Grandma

  FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from May 17, 2013

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

  Prince William

  Funny, Growing Up, Grandma

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

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• It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.

  Quang Nhuong Huynh

  Garden, Reality, Long

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• 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

  Imagination, Identity, Filipino

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• I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

  George Eads

  Hero, Aunt, Thinking

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• My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Singing, Kind, Influence

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• I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

  Robert Breault

  Taken, Grandpa, Grandkids

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• I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms.

  Usher

  Mother, Eye, Advice

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• I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.

  Gene Perret

  Couple, Grandma, Home

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

  David Dinkins

  Mother, New York, People

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