Grandmother Quotes

• I always make sure there’s an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.

  

  Tablo
  • Soul
  • Sleep
  • Forever

• My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

  

  Alan Bradley
  • Life
  • She
  • Air

• I inherited my love of gold jewellery from my grandmother.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Gold
  • Grandmother

• Estee Lauder was my grandmother. She was an iconic and powerful woman, but to us, she was just Estee. She was the first person to teach me how important it is to be passionate and proud of what you do, and always talked about 'balance.'

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Important
  • She
  • Proud

• I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.

  

  M.C. Brockert
  • Different
  • Mentality
  • Catering

• We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.

  

  Dorothy Fields
  • Help
  • Grandmother

• My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Grandmother

• I'm very, very competitive. If my grandmother asks to race me down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it!

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Grandmother

• AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.

  

  Priscilla Presley
  • Grandmother

• Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.

  

  Anders Zorn
  • She
  • Mother
  • Cold

• It was my grandmother who raised me and guided me.

  

  Coco Martin
  • Grandmother

• My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.

  

  Kevin Richardson
  • Grandmother

• I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

  

  Peter Mullan
  • People
  • She
  • Hate

• My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Children
  • Perfect
  • Disciplined

• My mother and grandmother... they were my first muses. The way they dressed and carried themselves was an education in elegance. They defined the word.

  

  Christian Cota
  • Mother
  • Education
  • Grandmother

• I love to watch 'Hoarders.' My grandmother was a hoarder. My mother's on her way. I'm an electronics hoarder - I won't throw any out. I still have my first T-Mobile Sidekick... old VCRs in my garage. It scares me that I'm going to end up being buried under electronics.

  

  Kevin Frazier
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Grandmother

• I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Grandmother
  • Italian

• My third mother is my paternal grandmother. Her name is Viola. She gave me my sense of knowing why, or knowing why it was important to ask why. She made me understand that I don't have to believe everything I hear.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Why

• I'm really Americanized. The only real Latina thing I do is cook rice and beans with chuletas and tostones. I do the healthier version of what my grandmother would have made: a lot less salt, a lot less fat, a lot more vegetables. Sometimes I serve it with brown rice, which is, like, sacrilegious.

  

  Andrea Navedo
  • Real
  • Grandmother

• I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Grandmother

• I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the beds and taught us how to find four-leaf clovers.

  

  Jandy Nelson
  • Family
  • Beginning
  • Red

• My grandmother had a courtyard of animals, like goats and chickens. She made ricotta cheese, cooked with potatoes warm from the garden, grew everything from beans to wheat. It was simple, seasonal food, and we all ate what was produced 10 miles from where we lived. It was that way for centuries.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • She
  • Food
  • Simple

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