Grandmother Quotes - Page 4

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

  Charles Colson

  Walks, My Own

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

  Colin Firth

  Common, Ministers, Wells

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• My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

  David Dinkins

  Mother, New York, People

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• Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

  Paulette Alden

  Grandma, Grandpa, Fading

  Paulette Bates Alden (1988). “Feeding the Eagles: Short Stories”

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• I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

  Ellen Burstyn

  Mother, Thinking, Play

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• I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it.

  Margot Kidder

  Beautiful, Running, Dog

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

  Loni Anderson

  Daughter, Mother, Teacher

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• I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

  John Forbes Nash

  Memories, Play, Piano

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• I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

  Lillie Langtry

  Mean, Age

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• My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

  Julie Walters

  Children, People, Want

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• I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

  Susan Strasberg

  Grandma, Home, Grandchildren

  Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”

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  Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandma, Grandchildren, Order

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.

  P. L. Travers

  Running, Knowing, Blood

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• Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

  Gore Vidal

  Grandma, Grandchildren, Perfect

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• Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandchildren, Glowing

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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• My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

  Henny Youngman

  Good Life, Grandma, Drinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

  Gene Tierney

  Thinking, Roles

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Never have children, only grandchildren.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Humorous, Kids

  Gore Vidal (1995). “Palimpsest: a memoir”

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