Grandmother Quotes - page 13

My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party. (Stephanie Herseth)
Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being. View quote
Steve Garvey
I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family. View quote
Steven Adler
It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance. View quote
Sugata Mitra
I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it. View quote
Susana Martinez
I work for wardrobe. Whenever I need clothes, I take a job. If I get maybe like six changes, then I'll be a grandmother, I don't care. View quote
Suzanne Pleshette
I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit. View quote
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids. View quote
Tyler Florence
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career. View quote
Tea Obreht
I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms. View quote
Usher
My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me. (Victoria Clark)
My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive. View quote
Wayne Wonder
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. View quote
Willard Scott
My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears. View quote
Yelawolf
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. View quote
Paulette Bates Alden
Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance. View quote
Juliette Binoche
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. View quote
Clarence Thomas
I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother. View quote
André Leon Talley
Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American. View quote
John Adams
Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction. View quote
Thomas Fuller
My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage. (Salma Hayek)
I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable. View quote
Marjane Satrapi
I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right. View quote
Marjane Satrapi
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac. View quote
Umberto Eco
I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. View quote
John Forbes Nash