My Grandmother Quotes

• My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

  Wayne Wonder

  Friends, Grandmother, Stay Positive

  "Who Is Wayne Wonder?". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. September 5, 2000.

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• I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

  George Eads

  Hero, Grandmother, Aunt

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• My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Grandmother, Imagination, Identity

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• My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

  Colin Firth

  Grandmother, Common, Ministers

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• My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Grandmother, Singing, Kind

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• My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!

  Edie Brickell

  Grandmother, Kitchen, Looks

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• My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

  Loni Anderson

  Daughter, Mother, Teacher

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• I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Grandmother, Hollywood Hills, House

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• My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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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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• I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.

  Steven Adler

  Jesus, Grandmother, Support

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• My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

  Rita Rudner

  Death, Husband, Grandmother

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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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• When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

  Ogden Nash

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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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 conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Grandmother, Political, Doubt

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• My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.

  Gene Perret

  Grandma, Believe, Grandmother

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• My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

  Henny Youngman

  Good Life, Grandma, Drinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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 I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'

  Jamie Foxx

  Grandmother, Grandparent, Southern

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• Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

  Doug Larson

  Grandma, Grandmother, Fighting

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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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• A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Beautiful, Baby, Grandma

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