Grandmother Quotes - Page 5

• A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

  Erma Bombeck

  Relationship, Fun, Halloween

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• If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Fun, Grandma, Grandchildren

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• What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Kindness, Children, Life Lesson

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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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• 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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• 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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• A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Beautiful, Baby, Grandma

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• I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Phenomenal Woman, Phenomenal

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• My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

  Michel Legrand

  Mother, Father, Home

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• I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

  Eric Clapton

  Guitar, Noise, Able

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• For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Years, Childhood, Mind

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.83

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• My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

  Bob Balaban

  Children, Dad, Russia

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Military, Cutting, Grandchildren

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• I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Jobs, Thinking, Boxing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

  Michelle Obama

  Patience, Moving, Grace

  "Michelle Obama DNC speech". www.politico.com.

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• My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Smallest, My Grandmother

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• A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

  Florence King

  Home, Eggs, Salt

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.65, Macmillan

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Doubt, Politics

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• If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

  George Brett

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

  Lamar Odom

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Grandchildren, Grandparent, Trying

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• On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

  Gene Perret

  Grandchildren, Grandparent, Towns

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• When a child is born, so are grandmothers.

  Judith Ellen Levy

  Baby, Children, Grandma

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