Grandmother Wise Quotes

#1. I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.

Jen Lancaster

#2. It is true that we choose our life, but it's also true that we can choose at any moment to change our path.

Jamie Magee

#3. Little Walter I would've liked to have played with.

Johnny Winter

#4. If someone is determined not to risk pain, then such a person must do without many things: [ ... ] - all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.

M. Scott Peck

#5. It's like one of your maps. There's never just one way to get somewhere right? There are a bunch of different possibilities. Some of them take you where you want to go, some bring you home, and others go somewhere else entirely. You can be really certain about really uncertain things.

Jennifer E. Smith

#6. And my parents don't want me to tell my grandmother - who, let's be honest, is already in the bottom of the ninth inning, age-wise - that

Robin Benway

#7. In the stock market ... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.

John Allen Paulos

#8. My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

Mackenzie Phillips

#9. Of course I was already familiar with that saying by Mies van der Rohe, Less is more, but I hadn't appreciated before just how sensual less could be, how rich and voluptuous.

J.P. Delaney

#10. My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone; she refused to occupy the features of her face.

Lorrie Moore

#11. That's like telling an elementary schooler to ignore the bully giving him swirlies and pay attention to the teacher.' he said, stuffing graham crackers in his mouth. 'Hey Raven, do you want me to beat those geeks up?

K.M. Shea

#12. To my grandmother, chagrin was a genuine physical disease. Like a hurt leg or a broken arm. To treat chagrin, you drank tea from leaves that only my grandmother and other old wise women could recognize.

Edwidge Danticat

#13. Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

Pam Brown

#14. When my mother died, I thought I'd drown in sorrow. But my grandmother said something very wise, and I've always held it close to my heart. She said that not even the sea is infinite, and neither is grief.

T. Frohock

#15. I kind of left everyone behind in Australia - all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend.

Margot Robbie

#16. O beautiful, to make escape
And leave this world behind.
Had I to stay another day
I'd lose my fucking mind...

Gregory Maguire