Grandmother Quotes

Grandmother Quote of the day

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight.

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

Over the water of time I call to youIn a language I do not know.

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself!

My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.

She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.

And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.

But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.

My grandmother would start making her meat sauce at 7 in the morning on Sunday, and within five or six hours, that smell would be all through the house.

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.

You made a lifetime commitment before God and the world. A silly thing like a divorce doesn’t reverse it.

The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.

She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.

Children should never have baths, ’ my grandmother said. ‘It's a dangerous habit.’‘I agree, Grandmamma.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

At the time, however, I didn't realize the extent of my granddaughter's sensitivity - or her loneliness. I thought only of myself. Of my own sensitivity and my own loneliness.