Grandma Quotes - Page 10

• Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Long Ago, Grandparent, Doubt

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• The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Dna, Long, People

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• Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.

  Gottfried Keller

  Kids, Gossip, Long

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• They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.

  Camara Laye

  Heart, Grandmother, Grandpa

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• I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

  Jacki Weaver

  Girl, Mom, Sweet

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

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• I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

  will.i.am

  Queens, Ideas, Royal

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

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• If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

  Edith Konecky

  Grandparent, Tone, Ifs

  Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.8, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Baby, Stars

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• Christy: "My grandma made this. I've had it since elementary school." Todd: "I never knew that." Christy: "I never knew you left your towel on the floor." Todd: "Uh-oh. Is this one of those issues they talked about in our premarital counseling? Should I hang up towels so you feel more loved?

  Robin Jones Gunn

  School, Issues, Towels

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• For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

  Ally Carter

  Character, Opera, Littles

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate." Grandma Mazur

  Janet Evanovich

  Real, Two, Dollars

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• It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

  Brandon Mull

  Fun, Book, Reading

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• Saved by the grandma" Ranger

  Janet Evanovich

  Rangers, Saved

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.104, Macmillan

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• He [Ranger] stopped in front of my parents' house, and we both looked to the door. My mother and my grandmother were standing there, watching us. "I'm not sure I feel comfortable about the way your grandma looks at me," Ranger said. [Stephanie] "She wants to see you naked." "I wish you hadn't told me that, babe." "Everyone I know wants to see you naked." "And you?" "Never crossed my mind." I held my breath when I said it, and I hoped God wouldn't stike me down dead for lying.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Lying, Doors

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.118, St. Martin's Press

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• I shot that sucker right in the gumpy." Grandma Mazur

  Janet Evanovich

  Shots, Sucker, Grandma Mazur

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2017

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• I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down." Grandma Mazur

  Janet Evanovich

  Eye, Television, Saws

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• Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill, he vowed to her that someday he would try to tell the world her life story. 'But why?' she asked humbly. 'I'm no one, just a girl from the coast' 'But you are everyone, Grandma,' the young Pramoedya told her. 'You are all the people who have ever had to fight to make this life their own.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Girl, Mother, Fighting

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Willem Samuels (2002). “The girl from the coast: a novel”, Hyperion Books

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• I always wanted to eat with a Negro,” Grandma said. Yeah, well I always wanted to eat with a boney- assed old white woman,” Lula said. “So I guess this works out good.

  Janet Evanovich

  White, Work Out, Yeah

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Four to Score”, p.185, St. Martin's Press

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• Grandma said [...] when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out to where no telling it will go.

  Forrest Carter

  Way, Firsts, Share

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• Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Easy

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.559, Simon and Schuster

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• ''Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and said in unison, "We are the sisters of Gillian." "Why do you come?" my mother asked. "To learn her skills. Honor her sword. And keep her secrets." "To what end do you work?" "To the cause of justice and light." "How long will you strive?" "For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Mother, Character

  "Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You". Book by Ally Carter, April 1, 2006.

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• Ranger is an unusual name," she managed. "Is it a nickname?" It's a street name," Ranger said. "I was a Ranger in the army." I heard about them Rangers on TV," Grandma said. "I heard they get dogs pregnant." My father's mouth dropped open and a piece of ham fell out. My mother froze, her fork poised in midair. That's sort of a joke," I told Grandma. "Rangers don't get dogs pregnant in real life." I looked at Ranger for corroboration and got another smile.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Dog, Father

  Janet Evanovich (2001). “Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.644, Simon and Schuster

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• Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.

  David Ebershoff

  Years, Grandpa, Lasts

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• I think when you take off that jacket and they see that ‘I LOVE GRANDMA’ T-shirt, they’re going to rip your heart out.

  Elayne Boosler

  Rip, Heart, Thinking

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• You need teeth like mine!" Grandma said. "You can just mail 'em to the dentist!

  Janet Evanovich

  Teeth, Needs, Ems

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