Grandmother Quotes

In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. … The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Time
- Writing
- She
My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.

Jami Attenberg
- Mother
- Grandmother

Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of style.

Aerin Lauder
- Up
- Growing
- Style
My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.

Jimmy Cliff
My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

Billy Strayhorn
- Good
- Grandmother
George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.

Christopher Buckley
- World
- May
- War
Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood

N. Scott Momaday
- Life
- Long
- Memories
I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

John Irving
- Up
- History
- Father