Grandmother Quotes - Page 27

• So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Kissing, Giving

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• Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.

  Hugh Laurie

  Eye, Legs, Tractors

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• My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mother, Support, Roles

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• And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

  Alice Walker

  Family, Mother, Flower

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

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• I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.

  Gene Perret

  Nice, Grandchildren, Play

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

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• I'm a grandmother and like every grandmother, I worry about the safety and security of my grandchildren, but my worries are not the same as black grandmothers.

  Hillary Clinton

  Grandchildren, Safety, Worry

  "Clinton Campaigns In North Carolina In Wake Of Police Shooting". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 2, 2016.

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• My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

  Clarence Thomas

  People, Grandfather, Sixth Grade

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• My mom told me I could have sheets, towels, and a few pillows, but I wanted leopard drapes, carpeting, and a comforter, too. I think maybe my obsession had something to do with my grandmother - she told me the best print to buy is leopard because it always stays in style.

  Kim Kardashian

  Mom, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish grandmother who came across the plains, hacked down the trees, and took the Spanish words she encountered and made them hers. Now her great-great-grandchildren sit terrified, wondering what to do with all these Mexicans. The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Running, Dream, Grandchildren

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.

  John Irving

  Father, Energy, World

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. "When I get to Heaven", my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, "your grandfather won't even recognize me.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Children, Father, Winning

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

  Thomas Harris

  Swans, Evil, Church

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, St. Martin's Press

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• One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word "elderly" in my copy over the years, and you will not be surprised to hear that the older I got the less often I used the word elderly in print.

  Anna Quindlen

  Elderly, Talking, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

  Will Smith

  Giving, Gold, Able

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though.... This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently.

  Arvind Ethan David

  Sexy, Book, Stuff

  "Nailed It!: David and Kyriazis on 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'". Interview with Keith Silva, comicsbulletin.com. March 8, 2016.

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• My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was happy and was going to pat me on the head and say I was good. But he took me home and told my grandmother this youngin' was at school singing the blues.

  Mavis Staples

  Uncles, School, Home

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My grandmother would always tell me that I was hers, that I was Mexican. That was her role. It was not my teacher's role to tell me I was Mexican. It was my teacher's role to tell me I was an American.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Teacher, Mexican, Roles

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I don't really remember much before was eight, but I do remember that my dad brought me to drop me off at my grandmother's house, and he was a very emotional guy, but that was the first time I really saw him cry, cos I knew it killed him to have to give me up, but he knew I needed some family structure. That was the last time I'd see him or talk to him when he was sober for the next 10 years.

  Diamond Dallas Page

  Dad, Emotional, Eight

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• When I was invited to go to Wuhan, I didn't know anything about it, so I looked up the Wikipedia about Wuhan. I discovered that part of Wuhan used to be Hankou, and then I realised that my great grandmother came from Hankou. My grandmother and father were both born in Hankou. Of all the places in China, it is the most amazing place to have asked for my exhibition. I needed to go back where my family comes from!

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Father, Wikipedia, Exhibitions

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

  Joy Bryant

  Trying, Used, Beats

  "Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 17, 2015.

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• When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul-parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion of how the current President is governing. The man wants a sexual encounter and love is far from his mind; she desires permanence, commitment, safety, and security.

  Jim Anderson

  Commitment, Love Is, Ice

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• I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Spiritual, Religious, People

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with my mother - whom I really did not know - who had moved to Milwaukee. Something inside myself knew that I was never going to see my grandmother again - I would be wasting my time to live in that space of wanting that.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mother, Space, Would Be

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• My grandmother taught me two very important lessons before she passed: hold the door for everyone and always say "thank you." That means to treat everyone the same, no matter if it is the President or a homeless mother begging for food. And never forget to thank those who have helped you, whether it is the person serving you food at a restaurant or your third-grade teacher who taught you the multiplication tables.

  Michael Skolnik

  Mother, Teacher, Mean

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My grandmother always would say, "This, too, shall pass." It is always true.

  Melissa Rauch

  This Too Shall Pass, My Grandmother

  "Big Bang Theory’s Melissa Rauch Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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