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

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, People, Sin

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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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• 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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• 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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• I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days.

  Jo Brand

  Grandma, People, Lucky

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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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• Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as "smell good" and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.

  Beth Ditto

  Keys, Essential Oils, Smell

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2007.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Fiftey years isn't too bad. With luck you might see it happen when your a sweet,old granny,dandling big fat babies on your knee. Actully"-he held up a hand,interrupting Kitty's cry of protest-"no,that's wrong. My projection is incorrect." "Good." "You'll never be a sweet old granny. Let's say,'sad,lonely old biddy' instead.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Baby, Lonely, Sweet

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• Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening. Excursions', said Magrat patienly. Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said. Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can recover from all them alarums.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nice, Mean, Play

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• My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.

  Sharon Creech

  Nice, Thinking, Want

  Sharon Creech (2009). “Granny Torrelli Makes Soup”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.

  Terry Pratchett

  Blessing, People, House

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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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• Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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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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