Grandmother Quotes

• There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Song
  • Grandmother

• I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my best friend and I would act out the films that we saw.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Home
  • Friend
  • Grandmother

• And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

  

  Jilly Cooper
  • Grandmother

• If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?

  

  Enele Sopoaga
  • Radio
  • Supposed
  • Warning

• Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

  

  Rita Moreno
  • Television
  • Grandmother
  • Creatures

• My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Grandmother

• My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • World
  • War
  • Mother

• The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • Moments
  • Childhood
  • Door

• My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one second. Then I had to take action.

  

  Euzhan Palcy
  • Action
  • Problem
  • Complain

• My Grandmother wouldn't even speak the word Democrat if there were children in the room, she'd say Bastards instead.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • She
  • Rooms

• I watched a ton of TV because I was raised by a single mom and spent a lot of time with my grandmother. Like most grandparents do, she would spend hours and hours in front of the TV box.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Time
  • She
  • Single

• I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

  

  Lillie Langtry
  • Age
  • Grandmother

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

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • Singing
  • Grandmother
  • Influences

• Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all about do-it-yourself at the moment.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Moments
  • Husband
  • Grandmother

• My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Funny

• The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

  

  Richard Land
  • Advice
  • President
  • Cat

• My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.

  

  Willard Scott
  • People
  • Mother
  • Cooking

• She Eleanor Roosevelt wants a life of her own. Her grandmother could have been a painter. Her grandmother could have done so much more than she did with her life. And Eleanor Roosevelt decides she is going to do everything possible with her life. She's going to live a full life.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Life
  • Painter
  • Eleanor Roosevelt

• Being an impatient person, I wanted to do what my grandmother said: "Do as much as you can as fast as you can; be as productive as possible." But you must be patient. So I have struggled to balance patience with being an impatient person, and trying to find a happy medium.

  

  Farrah Gray
  • Trying
  • Balance
  • Patient

• I'd RKO my own grandmother if it meant keeping this title. Then I'd RKO your grandmother just to see the look on her face.

  

  Randy Orton
  • Grandmother
  • Faces
  • Wwe

• It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.

  

  Quang Nhuong Huynh
  • Time
  • Long
  • House

• You tell me you want to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Grandmother

• I have pictures of my grandmother from the 1920s and '30s in avant-garde dresses that looked like they could have come from the House of Worth or Lucien Lelong. She would never say if they were couture, but I do recall her telling me, 'All my clothes and shoes came from Paris.'

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • She
  • House
  • Shoes

• Every individual face, a grandmother or grandchild or parents and their two kids, they're all there waving at you and they've all come to see you, it's as simple as that. They're not there simply by chance and that's very, very humbling.

  

  Ellen MacArthur
  • Parents
  • Chance
  • Humbling

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