Mother Grandmother Quotes

• My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick

  Cheryl Ladd

  Mother, Dad, Cooking

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• I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.

  James Patterson

  Mother, Cat, Two

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• Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Brother, Sibling

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• What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Kindness, Children, Life Lesson

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• If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Fun, Grandma, Grandmother

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• You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

  Albert Einstein

  Mom, Grandma, Grandmother

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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• Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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• A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

  Lois Wyse

  Mother, Children, Grandma

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony

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• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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• A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

  Erma Bombeck

  Relationship, Fun, Halloween

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• Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.

  William Osler

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa

  The Principles and Practice of Medicine p. 130. Appleton, New York (1892)

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• Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

  Art Linkletter

  Grandma, Patriotic, Grandmother

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• Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

  Lewis Mumford

  Family, Father, Grandmother

  The Brown Decades ch. 1 (1931)

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• Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

  Gene Perret

  Children, Grandmother, Grandparent

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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• Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.

  Liv Ullmann

  Baby, Grandma, Grandmother

  Liv Ullmann (1979). “Without Makeup, Liv Ullmann: A Photo-biography”

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• The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

  Doug Larson

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Ideas

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• Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

  J. Norman Collie

  Grandmother, Men, Grandchildren

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• My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.

  Gene Perret

  Basketball, Mean, Grandmother

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• An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Grandparent

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

  Susan Strasberg

  Grandma, Home, Grandmother

  Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”

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• A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Grandma, Names

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed. With Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius and Writings, by N. Rowe”, p.590

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• Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

  Andy Rooney

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Elephants

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.182, PublicAffairs

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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

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

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