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Image of Hugh Leonard
My grandmother made dying her life's work.
- Hugh Leonard
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Joanna Lumley
They [granddaughters] went to Disneyland and Alice proudly told Snow White: 'My grandmother is a famous atlas!' So that's nice - they're happy that I'm an atlas!
- Joanna Lumley
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Gene Perret
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
- Gene Perret
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Gene Perret
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.
- Gene Perret
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Gene Perret
Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.
- Gene Perret
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Gene Perret
I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.
- Gene Perret
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Anna Quindlen
One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word "elderly" in my copy over the years, and you will not be surprised to hear that the older I got the less often I used the word elderly in print.
- Anna Quindlen
Collection: Grandmother
Image of James Patterson
There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.
- James Patterson
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Joe Biden
My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.
- Joe Biden
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Maggie Stiefvater
Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist.
- Maggie Stiefvater
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Terry Pratchett
Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Grandmother
Image of N.K. Jemisin
The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man.
- N.K. Jemisin
Collection: Grandmother
Image of M. Night Shyamalan
My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.
- M. Night Shyamalan
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Jodi Picoult
I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?
- Jodi Picoult
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Barack Obama
[My grandmother] is a typical white person.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Woodrow Wilson
Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.
- Woodrow Wilson
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Hunter S. Thompson
But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.
- Hunter S. Thompson
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Julia Quinn
Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything...It was a wonder he didn't drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade.
- Julia Quinn
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Barry Lyga
Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself--over and over--not to do it.
- Barry Lyga
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Rick Riordan
I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother.
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Barack Obama
I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Hunter S. Thompson
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.
- Hunter S. Thompson
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Kent Nerburn
You need to understand this. We did not think we owned the land. The land was part of us. We didn't even know about owning the land. It is like talking about owning your grandmother - you can't own your grandmother. She just is your grandmother. Why would you talk about owning her?
- Kent Nerburn
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Neal Shusterman
My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?
- Neal Shusterman
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Steven Morrissey
Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.
- Steven Morrissey
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Dwight Yoakam
They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very subdued way.
- Dwight Yoakam
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Christopher Moore
[in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers.
- Christopher Moore
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Rick Riordan
Hazel squinted. "How far?" "Just over the river and through the woods." Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?" Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway.
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Sylvia Townsend Warner
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Barack Obama
The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Ann Brashares
Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
- Ann Brashares
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Stevie Nicks
I've always liked long, flowing clothes,...I used to rummage around in my grandmother's trunks trying to find them. I love the feeling of chiffon and lace.
- Stevie Nicks
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Will Smith
I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.
- Will Smith
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Will Smith
My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'
- Will Smith
Collection: Grandmother
Image of John Boyne
It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.
- John Boyne
Collection: Grandmother
Image of George Saunders
I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- "The Great Divider
- George Saunders
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Camille Paglia
Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!
- Camille Paglia
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Oprah Winfrey
Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.
- Oprah Winfrey
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Will Smith
Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way.
- Will Smith
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Jodi Picoult
I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.
- Jodi Picoult
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Kate Morton
Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was it always this way? Did those with passage booked on death's silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed?
- Kate Morton
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Gary Snyder
My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
- Gary Snyder
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Marge Piercy
The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then, which was Orthodox. I saw the rituals, a lot of them, as very male, for a long time.
- Marge Piercy
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Joni Mitchell
I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Chris Cleave
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
- Chris Cleave
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Chris Cleave
My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her in a cinema, in 1941, when a bomb came through the roof - a tragedy in which she herself was badly wounded.
- Chris Cleave
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Noam Chomsky
If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages in France and Italy, and they're all called French [and Italian], but they were not mutually comprehensible. They were different languages. And they have mostly disappeared in the last century or so. Some are being preserved, like Welsh, some are being revived, like Basque or Catelan to some extent. There are plenty of people in Europe who can't talk to their grandmother because they talk a different language.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Madonna Ciccone
I'll flirt with anyone from garbagemen to grandmothers.
- Madonna Ciccone
Collection: Grandmother
Image of Robert Breault
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.
- Robert Breault
Collection: Grandmother