Grandmamma Quotes

#1. You were listening at the door, Gigi!"
"No, Grandmamma."
"Yes, you had your ear to the keyhole. You must never listen at key-holes. You don't hear properly and so you get things all wrong.

Colette

#2. Grandmamma had been the last connection to our past. I had understood her as some referent moral authority to whom we paid no heed, but by whose judgments we measured our waywardness.

E.L. Doctorow

#3. my grandmamma says; 'be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle you know nothing about.

Sydney Arrison

#4. Go, my dear, and see how thy grandmamma does, for I hear she has been very ill; carry her a custard, and this little pot of butter.

Andrew Lang

#5. I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.

Elinor Glyn

#6. Finding a proper husband is rather like selecting a hound. They all have more bark than bite, my girl. One day you'll look across the breakfast table and realize the only option is obedience training. -Grandmamma Holmes

Emma Jane Holloway

#7. Dariya and I used to play French Revolution when we were little. We'd take turns being Marie Antoinette. Our grandmamma caught us once and had us whipped for revolutionary sentiments. We were six years old at the time and had no idea even what revolutionary sentiments were.

Robin Bridges

#8. So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

Lois Wyse

#9. Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.

Hilaire Belloc

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

Roald Dahl

#11. The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

Said Nursi

#12. Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.

Pliny The Elder

#13. The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

Vartan Gregorian

#14. You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

Jillian Michaels

#15. The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

Peter Drucker

#16. Do you see how much power you have when you act without fear?

Ken Liu