Grandmother Quotes

• I was a math whiz who stunk at English, so of course I wanted to be a writer more than anything in the world. I performed impromptu plays for my grandmother's sewing circle but forced my little sister to ask for ketchup at McDonald's.

  

  Alethea Kontis
  • World
  • English
  • Sister

• 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

• When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • She
  • Grandmother

• My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.

  

  Leila Aboulela
  • Mother
  • Faith
  • Grandmother

• My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

  

  Patti Smith
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

  

  George Brett
  • Sister
  • Grandmother

• I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.

  

  Kevin Gates
  • Long
  • Children
  • Family

• 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

• During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Friend

• My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Time
  • Mother
  • House

• 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

• 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
  • Children
  • She
  • True

• I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother had two daughters, and my mother had two daughters. My sister had a daughter and then finally a son. You should have seen my father with the son. He could not believe that finally there was a boy in the family.

  

  Chantal Akerman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Family

• My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Life
  • Great
  • She

• 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 would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

  

  Jayne Meadows
  • Mother
  • Dog
  • Grandmother

• My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Why
  • Grandmother

• As a kid, I always used to make clothes. My grandmother made everything with me - she taught me how to knit.

  

  Maria Cornejo
  • She
  • Grandmother

• I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Life
  • Men
  • Thinking

• My grandmother was whip smart as well as an incredible athlete. She played tennis in her sari, cheered on the Indian team in cricket matches, and tried to convince us that her made-up words were real so she could win a Scrabble game.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • Up
  • Real
  • She

• My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was having too much fun to settle down.

  

  Amor Towles
  • She
  • Fun
  • Marriage

• Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.

  

  Carole Bouquet
  • Family
  • Job
  • Mother

• I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mother

• My grandmother was the matriarch. If you didn't have a place to stay, if you needed food, if you were just coming out of jail or rehab, you went to her. Watching her in our family and our wider community was what inspired me and still does.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Family
  • Food
  • Community

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