Top 38 Best Grandmothers Quotes

#1. Jeff Sachs has the Millennium Villages. He spends $2.5 million in one village. It's an absolutely ridiculous model, because I've said that if you gave me $2.5 million, I can train 100 grandmothers, solar electrify 100 villages - 10,000 houses - and save you 100,000 litres of kerosene.

Bunker Roy

Best Grandmothers Quotes #16967
#2. I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

Julie Andrews

Best Grandmothers Quotes #28899
#3. 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

Best Grandmothers Quotes #37826
#4. Grandmothers died. It was to be expected. You weren't even allowed to be that upset about it. Please don't let Frannie have died. Please don't let anyone have died. Nobody else in our family will

Liane Moriarty

Best Grandmothers Quotes #44829
#5. To my grandmothers,
for tilling the soil in which we grew and for watering our roots with stories of all the old things

Lisa Wingate

Best Grandmothers Quotes #47167
#6. I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.

Gordon Brown

Best Grandmothers Quotes #52541
#7. My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

Constance Baker Motley

Best Grandmothers Quotes #67709
#8. Human beings are disgustingly predictable, and this is as true of psychopaths as it is of grandmothers.

Douglas Preston

Best Grandmothers Quotes #71787
#9. One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

Samuel Smiles

Best Grandmothers Quotes #73929
#10. It's the job of grandmothers to interfere.

Lady Violet

Best Grandmothers Quotes #74371
#11. Always and Forever is a Grandmothers love

Kathy Griffin

Best Grandmothers Quotes #87942
#12. And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Alice Walker

Best Grandmothers Quotes #107731
#13. Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

Wendell Berry

Best Grandmothers Quotes #114484
#14. Sometimes life begins like a bad dream and ends up like a kid's fairytale. The kind our
grandmothers used to tell us about sitting next to a fireplace, with their white braids shining under
the fire's light. They knew that even in an era like ours, there is nothing wrong with dreaming..

Georgia Kakalopoulou

Best Grandmothers Quotes #119828
#15. I still loved Granny. It flowed out of my chest. With Granny gone, where would my love go?

Jessica Maria Tuccelli

Best Grandmothers Quotes #128841
#16. Whether it was the delicious food they filled us with, their humorous antics, or the extreme warmth and acceptance they provided the family, one thing is for sure, nothing could replace the love for and the love felt from Italian grandmothers.

Jacqueline Miconi

Best Grandmothers Quotes #142689
#17. There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the ones who feel hurt. The latter are definitely in the minority.

Mary Margaret McBride

Best Grandmothers Quotes #144442
#18. The problem is, there is no geographical cure. No matter where we (Black American Folk) go, we are still too plugged into this place. Our cousins, grandmothers, aunts, nieces will be in this place. And the second we start looking at it as a "them" problem, we become another problem.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Best Grandmothers Quotes #164522
#19. He looked up at the gathered Grandmothers, and She Who Had Been Hasha saw the truth in her grandson's face. He would fight Grandmothers or gods or humans to protect his Liam. This was the way it should be.

Lyn Gala

Best Grandmothers Quotes #180212
#20. Sometimes grandmothers need to do what they think is best for their grandson and practically adopted granddaughter by opening their eyes to different experiences. That's the only way you'll learn what you're capable of.

Wendy Mass

Best Grandmothers Quotes #189848
#21. She suddenly felt sorry for these people, for perverting the food of their childhood, the food of their mothers and grandmothers, and rejecting its unconditional love in favor of what? What? Pat did not understand.

J. Ryan Stradal

Best Grandmothers Quotes #198808
#22. It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Gene Simmons

Best Grandmothers Quotes #202467
#23. Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

Kerry Washington

Best Grandmothers Quotes #206018
#24. I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.

Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

Best Grandmothers Quotes #230096
#25. Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.

Florence King

Best Grandmothers Quotes #232635
#26. The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

Clifton Fadiman

Best Grandmothers Quotes #267105
#27. I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

Thomas Harris

Best Grandmothers Quotes #270328
#28. He said, "The spring was good enough for their mothers and their grandmothers before them. They will get ideas above their station in life if they have a well." She

Nevil Shute

Best Grandmothers Quotes #299322
#29. I've seen my grandmothers grow old and they are so beautiful, every wrinkle in their face tells a story. I want to feel that in 30 years. I would always choose that kind of beauty over that comes from having too much done to yourself.

Penelope Cruz

Best Grandmothers Quotes #301038
#30. Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

Carlos Fuentes

Best Grandmothers Quotes #326759
#31. My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

Ellen DeGeneres

Best Grandmothers Quotes #353360
#32. The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them ... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Best Grandmothers Quotes #362424
#33. People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

Adriana Trigiani

Best Grandmothers Quotes #390961
#34. If god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

Linda Henley

Best Grandmothers Quotes #396253
#35. Girls are under enormous pressures rarely experienced by their mothers, grandmothers, and other women in previous generations. Today's little girls are being enticed to grow up too fast and are encountering challenges for which they are totally unprepared.

James C. Dobson

Best Grandmothers Quotes #400923
#36. But there were no faerie godmothers. There were only mothers and grandmothers, and there was no magic wand to wave over a person's heart and make it all better. The fairy tales lied ... Fucking Brothers Grimm.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Best Grandmothers Quotes #447922
#37. Mothers, Grandmothers, and Mother Nature are the best doctors around.

Robert S. Mendelsohn

Best Grandmothers Quotes #774864
#38. Grandmothers are the best female superheroes and I don't know why they don't have their own special day and month of the year to celebrate.

Euginia Herlihy

Best Grandmothers Quotes #1804514

Famous Authors

Popular Topics