Granny Quotes

• Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

  Maggie Smith

  Buckets, Kicks

  "Maggie Smith, of thee we sing". www.usatoday.com. September 16, 2012.

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• When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

  Maggie Smith

  Lucky, Eras

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

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• We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.

  Kate Middleton

  Dressing Up, Pairs, Wonderful

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• I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Player, Years, Six Year Olds

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• When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, People, Complicated

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Carpe Jugulum: (Discworld Novel 23)”, p.314, Random House

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• And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, People, Sin

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• Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was.

  Terry Pratchett

  Darkness, Mountain, Forests

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• I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat.

  Brian Clough

  Cat, Player, Giving

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• After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

  Jimmy Carr

  Night, Words Of Wisdom, Watches

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• All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.

  Colin Powell

  Love, Mom, Dream

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• He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

  Gary Lineker

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  " My granny could have coached Brazil, says Lineker" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2006.

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• Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

  Terry Pratchett

  Art, Actors, World

  "Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• I defy anybody to not look cool with the guns. My granny could look cool doing that!

  Simon Pegg

  Gun, Looks

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?"

  Keith Waterhouse

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

  The Spectator, January 15, 1994.

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• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as wee one.

  Natascha McElhone

  Mother, Brother, Children

  "Natascha McElhone: my family values" by Victoria Lambert, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ignorance, Voice, Half

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)”, p.80, Random House

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• For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Book, Talking

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• I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble." "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Ems, Nannies

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• Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Witch, Old Fashioned

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction”, p.235, Random House

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• There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up wondering how a freckle-faced teenager could look so much like a disapproving granny.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Teenager, Hair, Expression

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• I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hurt, Mistress, Want

  "Witches Abroad". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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• And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Bunnies, Jammies

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• There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin

  Florence King

  Growing Up, Book, Reading

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• Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you could use them, you could change them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stories, Use, World

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