Grandmother Quotes - Page 3

• I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear.

  Prince William

  Kids, Underwear, Come Up

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• My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

  Billy Strayhorn

  Piano, Littles, Little Things

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• The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Break Up, Fighting, Allies

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• Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.

  Gene Perret

  Grandchildren, Naps, Two

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

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• I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

  Gene Perret

  Grandma, Grandpa, Energy

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

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• I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.

  Steven Adler

  Jesus, Support, Thank God

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• My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.

  Anders Zorn

  Goodbye, Mother, Farewell

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• You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

  Sam Levenson

  Grandparent, Grandfather, Grandkids

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.1, Open Road Media

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• What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

  Sally Rand

  Names, Dancing, Heaven

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• I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Mother, High Heels, Play

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stories, Very Good, My Grandmother

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• I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

  Compay Segundo

  Strong, Waiting, Pursue

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• My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.

  Muddy Waters

  Church, Should, Bother

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• The word good has many meanings.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Yards, Grand Mother

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• I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

  Charles Colson

  Walks, My Own

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• My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

  Rita Coolidge

  Song, My Grandmother

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

  Jilly Cooper

  Ready, Persons, Emily

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• I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

  Barack Obama

  Men, White, Community

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it

  Camryn Manheim

  Reality, Play, Safe

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• I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.

  Priscilla Presley

  Feels

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• I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

  Jayne Meadows

  Mother, Dog, Writing

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• To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

  Robert Breault

  Grandchildren, Grandpa, Pleasure

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• I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Hollywood Hills, House, Harlem

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• At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

  Jung Chang

  Age, Fifteen, Warlords

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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