Grandmother Quotes

• 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

• 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

• I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • School
  • She
  • Proud

• 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 was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

  

  Chris Ware
  • Life
  • Grandmother
  • Empathy

• 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

• My look is more grandmother’s leftovers than heroin chic.

  

  Alice Glass
  • Look
  • Grandmother
  • Heroin

• What I continuously remember is when I was a child in the courtyard with my grandmother and we milked the goat and we made the ricotta. The still-warm ricotta from our goat, on top of a piece of bread, and we used to sprinkle just a little bit of honey or sugar on it. That flavor, that stays in my memory.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Remember
  • Grandmother

• My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

  

  Clare Bowen
  • Family
  • Beautiful
  • Irish

• 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

• All the academy will tell you that the language that is familiar to you is not appropriate. and that's not to say that there shouldn't be a standard, but when I come to school with my friends' language, my grandmother's language, the language in my mouth - you're going to tell me that's improper?

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • School
  • Friends
  • Grandmother

• My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.

  

  James McAvoy
  • She
  • Movie
  • Sister

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Grandmother

• The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll go out and talk to people about what's happening to their families, and when I do that, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • People
  • Mother
  • Grandmother

• With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

  

  Louise Leakey
  • Past
  • Grandmother

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

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Funny

• 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

• 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

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