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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.

  Wesley Strick

  Snakes, Church, Legs

  "Fictional character: Max Cady". "Cape Fear", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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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 Weatherwaz was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed.

  Terry Pratchett

  Morning, Bed, Wake Up

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.21, Harper Collins

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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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• Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kind, Moments, Lost

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• My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman,” it said. “I’ll be the judge of that,” warned Granny, and added, “Don’t call me woman.” “Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz,” said the demon smugly.

  Terry Pratchett

  Names, Judging, Tongue

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• You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.

  Dean Koontz

  Play, Imagination, Live Your Life

  Dean Koontz (2014). “Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)”, p.5, Bantam

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• Do you know how wizards like to be buried?" "Yes!" "Well, how?" Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs. "Reluctantly.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wizards, Stairs, Buried

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.

  Curtis Stone

  Thinking, Smell, Childhood

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• Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. it meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.

  Terry Pratchett

  Strong, Revenge, Mean

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• 'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"

  Richard Rodriguez

  Block, Mean, Ghetto

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I never thought my granny, somebody that was born down South, who witnessed America when it was segregated, would see, in her lifetime, an African-American in office as the President of the United States. It's major, it's a real historic day.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Real, America, Office

  Source: djbooth.net

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• The Lord givith and the Lord takith away. I was given a lot of signs from the universe and looking at it in retrospect made me feel like God was telling me I needed to follow my dream. My granny getting in that car accident and being at that hospital when I was going there to see my girl... that whole part of the story where I go to the show and come back to the hospital... and it was almost like as soon as I found out that my granny didn't make it as soon as I got back, I also found out that my son had just come out.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Girl, Dream, Son

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because everything in the woods is exactly as it seems.

  Angela Carter

  Girl, Light, House

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• You might be a redneck if you stand under the mistletoe at Christmas and wait for Granny and cousin Sue-Ellen to walk by.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Cousin, Redneck, Waiting

  Jeff Foxworthy (2004). “There's No Place Like (A Mobile) Home For The Holidays: A Redneck Christmas”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc

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