Grandmother Quotes - Page 8

• Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.

  Quincy Jones

  Summer, Father, Lamps

  "Grammy Legend Award". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.

  Tina Turner

  Children, Stories, Used

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• 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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• To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

  William Shakespeare

  Son, Thinking, Tempest

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.16, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Mother, Kids

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• I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

  Penelope Lively

  Country, Home, Years

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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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• My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be inside: e.e. cummings, flower petals, a handful of buttons. She seems to have lost sight of the original purpose of the brown bag." - Lennie "Or maybe she thinks other forms of nourishment are more important." - Joe

  Jandy Nelson

  Flower, Thinking, Sight

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.36, Penguin

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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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• 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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• We need a barn or one of those storage areas for the Broken vehicles." "A garage?" He gave her a short nod. "A private, relatively remote location, with thick walls to dampen the sound and preferably a sturdy door I could bolt from the inside, keeping your grandmother, your brothers, and all other painfully annoying spectators out..." Rose began to laugh. A make-out bunker... "I'm glad you find our dilemma hilarious.

  Ilona Andrews

  Brother, Wall, Doors

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• Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. If something is worth hearing or listening to, it's very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Reading, Boys, Expression

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• 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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• 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 used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?

  Neal Shusterman

  Path, Twisted, Used

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Downsiders”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Grandma, Cooking

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years. It was all still with me, the storage space in my brain crammed with vivid memories, packed and piled like photographs and old dresses in my grandmother’s bureau. I wasn’t just the madwoman in the attic — I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Memories, Past, Years

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons."

  Karen Russell

  Brother, Dad, War

  "Haunting Olivia" by Karen Russell, www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2005.

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• When she left for a third time and returned with a giant box, I started to get irate. "What is this?" I demanded, taking it from her. It felt like it had bricks in it. "Grandmother needs you to carry some things," Paul told me. "Yes," I said through gritted teeth. "I sort of figured that out fifty pounds ago.

  Richelle Mead

  Teeth, Giants, Needs

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.663, Penguin

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• My grandmother used to say that there's something truly intimate about sharing food with the people you love." [Stacey] "Intimate? Sharing food? People you love?" Amber raises an eyebrow. "Um, no offense, Stace, but it sounds like Gram was into food kink.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Eyebrows, People, Sound

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• Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

  Tove Jansson

  Ideas, Done, Sophia

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• No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.

  Alane Ferguson

  Cutting, Interesting, Body

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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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