Grandma Quotes - Page 4

• You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding him if it was aliens," Grandma said.

  Janet Evanovich

  Missing, Devil, Aliens

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.16, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Usually I wear my grandma's old aprons, or others I have collected in my travels. When I was young, I would sit and watch my grandma prepare stuff. She wasn't Italian, but she did really good Italian food.

  Debi Mazar

  Italian, Watches, Stuff

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• Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Nice, Dark, Thinking

  A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.791, Simon and Schuster

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• My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.

  Amanda Hocking

  Mom, Talking, Years

  "A Self-Published Author's $2 Million Cinderella Story". "All things considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. January 8, 2012.

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• Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

  Jamie Foxx

  Men, Piano, Jokes

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• I heard some famous people had an anniversary, five long years together, it was Hollywood history. Now my grandma and grandpa never made no printed page, but they took the love of 57 years right to the grave.

  Clay Walker

  Art, Media, Years

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• Whoa!" she says as I plow into her. " What are you DOING? Get off me!" I hang on tight. "Can't a girl just hug her big sister?" She stops fighting me. "Are you dying? Am I dying? Did Grandma die? I laugh. "No one died." "Then get off!

  Wendy Mass

  Girl, Fighting, Laughing

  Wendy Mass (2011). “11 Birthdays: A Wish Novel”, p.168, Scholastic Inc.

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• Grandma Redbird: Honey, you have to move past this. Zoey: How Grandma? Grandma Redbird: By living the life she'd be proud of you for living.

  P. C. Cast

  Live Life, Moving, Past

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• We don’t LOVE our Grandmas because they look like super models. We love them because of WHO they are

  John Bytheway

  Looks, Models

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• Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.

  Richard Peck

  Cutting, Necks, Said

  Richard Peck (2000). “A Year Down Yonder”

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• Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

  Richard Peck

  Oil, World, Ugly

  Richard Peck (2000). “A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel in Stories”, p.11, Penguin

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• At the other end of the room, Grandma had the lid up on Larry Lipinski. She was standing one foot on a folding chair, one foot on the edge of the casket, and she was taking pictures with a disposable camera.

  Janet Evanovich

  Feet, Cameras, Rooms

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.112, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Almost everybody I know has died,” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps.

  Janet Evanovich

  Wimps, Said, Bunch

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.108, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly -- Grandma Ruth

  Brandon Mull

  Reading, Ruth, Becoming

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• The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Italian, Thinking

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• 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

  Jobs, Dad, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.400, St. Martin's Press

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• [Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love" [Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it.

  Janet Evanovich

  Thinking, Needs, Plums

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• My grandma pregnant again trying to talk her out of keeping it

  Curtis Jackson

  Trying, My Grandma, Pregnant

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• God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons.

  Libba Bray

  War, Stupid, Godly

  "Beauty Queens". Book by Libba Bray, May 24, 2011.

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• Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter." He held out a gray, speckled envelope. "Happy birthday to you!" Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications. Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away. "Dear Kendra," Seth improvised, "you're the only girl who really gets me, you know, and I think you're very mature for your age--" "What about some cake?" Grandma interrupted, holding the first piece out to Kendra and glaring at Seth.

  Brandon Mull

  Girl, Thinking, Cake

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• This is the most precious gift anyone has ever received. You gave me back a memory that I will cherish forever. You gave me something from my grandma I didn't know I had. And you kept it and it lef you back to mme. It gave me you'' I felt a wetness in my eyes and I blinked confused from the strange sensation. A small trickle of water rand down my cheek. I stared into the darkness as I held Pagan in my arms in amazement Death had just shed a tear.

  Abbi Glines

  Memories, Confused, Eye

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• Well," he said, "I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don't have a lot of staying power or they'd have been at the gym with me before. I doubt Grandma Kent there is going to do a lot of damage." He pointed at a gray-haired, hunched lady in a shawl, carrying what looked liked a gardening tool. "It's like Plants Versus Zombies, and I'm not rooting for the zombies, weirdly enough.

  Rachel Caine

  Thinking, Waiting, Doubt

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• At the very least i should fear you. some would say that I should hate you." "Many would say that." "Yet i neither fear nor hate you." "You-you are comforting me. Giving me sanctuary. Why, Grandma?" Aurox asked. "Because I believe in the power of love. I believe in chosing Light over Darkness-happiness over hatred-trust over skeptism.

  P. C. Cast

  Hate, Believe, Light

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• To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.

  Chris Colfer

  Writing, School, Thinking

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• To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

  Chris Colfer

  Boys, Once Upon A Time, Short Sweet Love

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