Grandmother Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.

  Lucrecia Martel

  Mother, Stories, Oral Tradition

  "'Headless Woman' Director Lucrecia Martel: My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition". Interview with Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. August 20, 2009.

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• I was raised in the church by my grandmother who made sure we went to Sunday School, read the Bible and went to church every Sunday. Every night we read Bible stories before we went to bed.

  Torii Hunter

  School, Sunday, Night

  "Los Angeles Angels outfielder Torii Hunter on how his faith helps him set a good example". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. June 2011.

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• A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.'

  Chamique Holdsclaw

  People, Laid Back, Bother

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• My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.

  Lamar Odom

  Thinking, Upbeat, Happy Person

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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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• My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a democrat in the family.

  Emo Philips

  Heart, Brain, Firsts

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• Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.

  Juliette Binoche

  Mother, Real, Needs

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• 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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• I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.

  Joni Mitchell

  Two, Frustrated, Musician

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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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• I was raised by my grandmother. She instilled everything into me. She taught me right from wrong from day one. I remembered everyday, being 4 or 5 years old, and walking to school, she would be like, Raise your right hand and stay on the right side of the street and make sure you do the right thing in school.

  Nick Cannon

  School, Years, Hands

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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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• My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Aunt, People, Tales

  Interview with David Barsamia, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school.

  Erin Wasson

  Mother, Teenager, School

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• People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should feed her," and the maternal grandmother will say, "Why is that baby crying so much, making her mom so tired?

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Mom, Baby, Tired

  FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from Sep 07, 2012

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• The best advice I've heard was from a lady in her 80s at my grandmother's 90th birthday. I was telling her how wonderful my children are. She said, "Don't forget your husband: you only borrow your children; your husband you'll have for ever."

  Davina McCall

  Children, Husband, Advice

  "This much I know: Davina McCall". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2011.

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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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• Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Suicide, Daughter, Song

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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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