Grandmother Quotes - Page 3

• I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

  Carol Burnett

  Girl, Mom, Mother

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• My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

  Carol Burnett

  Running, Eight, Average

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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 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 was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

  Colin Firth

  Common, Ministers, Wells

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• Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

  Dan Rather

  Country, Playing Games, Weather

  Dan Rather (1995). “The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist”, Hearst Books

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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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• 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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• Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Women, Law

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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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• 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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• 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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• My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'

  Jamie Foxx

  Grandparent, Southern, Gentleman

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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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• As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

  Sue Kelly

  Mother, Teacher, Quality

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

  Priscilla Presley

  Feels

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• The word good has many meanings.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Yards, Grand Mother

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

  Cornelia Funke

  Stories, Very Good, My Grandmother

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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 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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• 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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