Grandmother Quotes - Page 7

• You don’t have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I’d pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.

  Nadia Giosia

  Stars, Looks, Pits

  "The Julia Child of the Net generation". AndrewZimmern.com Interview, andrewzimmern.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and ice cream socials, about ladies leaving calling cards and the milkman with his horse-drawn wagon, I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny's childhood-a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace

  Ann M. Martin

  Horse, School, Independent

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• Sometimes we adopt certain beliefs when we're children and use them automatically when we become adults, without ever checking them out against reality. This brings to mind the story of the woman who always cut off the end of the turkey when she put it in the oven. Her daughter asked her why, and her mother responded, "I don't know. My mother always did it." Then she went and asked her mother, who said, "I don't know. My mother always did it." The she went and asked her grandmother, who said, "The oven wasn't big enough."

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge exists in my capacity to love. If I can learn to love death then I can begin to find refuge in change.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Capacity To Love, Rivers

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.178, Vintage

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• If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

  Daniel Handler

  Baby, Real, Fake

  "The Reptile Room". Book by Daniel Handler, 1999.

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• My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity. Marc and I want to make sure we're doing that. This period of our lives is not just a tribute to her, it's inspired by her. And it's for when we have our own children — I want to help make sure we've got a world I want them to live in.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Children, Opportunity, Optimism

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• We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.

  Shirley Temple

  Mother, Years, Wife

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• Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is the way it's supposed to work. This is God's plan: father and mother, grandfather and grandmother teaching their children; children learning from them and then becoming a more righteous generation through their own personal experiences and opportunities. Learning the lessons of the past allows you to build personal testimony on a solid bedrock of obedience, faith, and the witness of the Spirit.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Running, Children

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• I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother.

  Rick Riordan

  Acting, Annabeth

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?"

  John Berendt

  Atlanta, Names, People

  "Even in the Best of Cities" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. February 06, 1994.

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• SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain, and the green outrageous hopeful light of spring. People came and went, grandmothers and doll collectors and little girls with their mothers. Edward Tulane waited. The seasons turned into years. Edward Tulane waited. He repeated the old doll’s words over and over until they wore a smooth groove of hope in his brain: Someone will come; someone will come for you.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Summer, Girl, Mother

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.446, Candlewick Press

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• Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, “Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters.” More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them for intruders and chase them off with a frying pan.

  Rick Riordan

  Mistake, Monsters, Frying Pans

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• Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard. And meridians. Isn't that pretty? We're going to fly along them, faster than the light can follow us... Time won't be able to catch us.

  Tove Jansson

  Night, Light, Able

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• You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.

  Sergei Parajanov

  Mother, Night, People

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• Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving birth don't make the same mistakes as their mothers or grandmothers-they make new ones.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Mother, Mistake, Giving

  Elizabeth Noble (1983). “Childbirth with Insight”

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• I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.

  Kathy Bates

  Mother, Nice, Eye

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• My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.

  Alice Hoffman

  Thinking, Sky, Apples

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• I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.

  Bill Cosby

  Drinking, Glasses, Pouring

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• Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

  Marina Warner

  Mother, Men, Maps

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• In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful.

  Diane Black

  Mother, College, Nurse

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• Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all about do-it-yourself at the moment.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Husband, Coats, Boxers

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• But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: 'Don't. You will regret it. One day you will wake up with no eyebrows and think how stupid you were. Your eyebrows are the most beautiful thing about you.'

  Natalia Vodianova

  Beautiful, Regret, Stupid

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• My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you. She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Challenges, Passed Away, November

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• My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking.

  Stark Young

  Mother, Father, Talking

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• A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.

  Florence Welch

  Dream, Song, Rumor

  "Florence And The Machine Hint At New Music Inspired By 'Dark Metaphors'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 20, 2011.

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