Grandmother Quotes - page 7

I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren. (Hugo Chávez)
In exasperation, I furiously attacked the floors and walls of the Moscow Theater. My mural paintings sight there, in obscurity. Have you seen them? Rant and rave, my contemporaries! In one way or another, my first theatrical alphabet gave you a belly-ache. Not modest? I'll leave that to my grandmother: it bores me. Despise me, if you like. View quote
Marc Chagall
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. View quote
Albert Einstein
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died. View quote
Mary Augusta Ward
my grandmother has given me her own version of the precious gift: the most precious gift any teenager coul ask for: MY GRANDMOTHER HAS GIVEN MY MY OWN SEX PLACE!!!!! View quote
Meg Cabot
My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion. View quote
Mohsin Hamid
My grandmother was not a great storyteller. View quote
Andrew Sean Greer
My mother was a very quiet woman and people say that she didn't get much of a chance to talk because my grandmother and I talked so much. View quote
Ruth Westheimer
It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases. View quote
Hilary Mantel
Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is. View quote
Sean Covey
I seriously love to cook ... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid, I used to help her make handmade pasta, cavatelli and ravioli. It was one of my favorite things to do. I love the idea of making whatever is in the fridge into something. (Bradley Cooper)
My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish. View quote
Bernie Mac
Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. View quote
Gabrielle Zevin
I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key. View quote
Gabrielle Zevin
I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food. View quote
Debi Mazar
I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking. View quote
Debi Mazar
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. View quote
Jandy Nelson
If she wasn't your grandmother I'd shoot her." Ranger. View quote
Janet Evanovich
My grandmother is a little Cuban woman who cooks all day and speaks Spanish. Your grandmother watches pay-per-view porn." "She used to watch the Weather Channel, but she said there wasn't enough action." -Ranger and Stephanie. View quote
Janet Evanovich
I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods. View quote
Jada Pinkett Smith
I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk. (James Patterson)
You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed. They succeed because an adult figure, typically a mother, maybe a grandmother, nourishes the kid, supports the kid, protects the kid, encourages the kid to succeed. It's as if the environment never happened. View quote
James Heckman
I'm not trying to-What do teenagers say nowadays?” he asked my grandmother."Get all up in her biznez,” Nana said.Without cracking a smile."That's right,” he replied. "We're not trying to get all up in your biznez, Ali. View quote
Gena Showalter
Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting. View quote
John Hume
to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge