Quotes About Being A Grandma

#1. I was just thinking about me having children. Or being a grandma!" She giggled. "Think I'll be fat and have gray hair?"

"I sure hope so," her father said, laughing himself.

Sharon M. Draper

#2. Like every girl who grew up being read fairy tales, I thought love was all about big gestures. But now I understand exactly what Grandma meant. It's the heart he drew in the sand on our honeymoon, driving miles to get me the best chicken noodle soup when I was sick, making me coffee every morning.

Jillian Dodd

#3. I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago - I mean, there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago - whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're still hidden.

David Petraeus

#4. People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

Madame Roland

#5. Most girls don't know what to do with what they've got.

Jayne Mansfield

#6. My grandma always said, "Trouble is what God uses to prepare you for better things!" If you have trouble in your life, you are in a valley. If you are in a valley, you are being prepared for something bigger, better, greater; something you probably could not handle now.

Iyanla Vanzant

#7. Grandma Mary would say, "That's why so many young women are marrying so many older men, because there aren't any more being raised. She would rather be an older man's sweetheart than a young man's fool and slave.

Lyanta' J. Tomlin

#8. If we got caught being in grandma's smaller room without her or without another adult being there, we were surely in for a good old-fashioned ass whipping, Kunta Kinte style. Grandma Bertha didn't play that shit.

Amina

#9. Pretty much every society, every culture in the world has some version of the Arthur legend, so everybody knows it; certainly in the western world, everybody knows King Arthur, but nobody knows what happens next.

Neil Marshall

#10. Our kids need us to be the dad, not a fun single uncle. When you can replace your 007 poster with a framed portrait of Grandma, your kids will experience an underlying sense of being at home when they are with you - whether for a weekend, a summer, or full-time.

Tez Brooks

#11. The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance.

Natsuki Takaya

#12. Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

Margaret Mead

#13. Trust. That was what this was all about. If you can't trust the one you love, you don't have anything.

Julie Anne Peters

#14. I went home and tried to sleep, but couldn't, so I stared up at the moon, watching how it's trailing edge faded into darkness, so close to being full, but not quite there. A pregnant moon, Grandma called it. Full almost to bursting, and ready to give birth to something unthinkable.

Neal Shusterman

#15. The idea that Sir Gerek the Irritable was being kind to her made her stomach do a strange flip.

Melanie Dickerson

#16. You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma

Jack Gantos

#17. If I didn't ever model? I would be back in Kansas. I would probably end up being a pastry chef. My grandma taught me how to make a pie.

Lindsey Wixson

#18. A simple change of scenery can bring about powerful shifts in the flow of time and emotions

Haruki Murakami

#19. Being Latina, I'm super close with my family. I love them, and I love spending time with them. I love being at my grandma's house and eating her food.

Emeraude Toubia

#20. Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis

Thomas Harris

#21. Grandma being possessed by a murderous demon from hell makes perfect sense to me,

Meg Cabot

#22. Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.

Joyce Carol Oates

#23. Both my mom and my grandma were really big influences on me not only by being strong and teaching me to be strong but also owning their salt as well.

Miranda Lambert

#24. If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain clothing. Talk about lack of civil rights - I'm sorry, I'm pulling you right off the street, and we're giving you clothes that you're going to be O.K. in.

Denis Leary

#25. We all love being outdoors. Grandma was in her garden or fishing; Mama loves to fish and I love to be outside. We all love the Lord.

Reba McEntire

#26. My mom called Grandma today and told her we would no longer be attending family parties. My mom told her we have had enough of being blamed for something Brian did and everyone brushing it off like it was no big deal.

Erin Merryn

#27. To Grandma,
for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I've ever received: Christopher, I think you should wait until you're done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.

Chris Colfer

#28. Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Lord Chesterfield

#29. She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

Victor Hugo

#30. ...Now did you ever hear of a young feller's having such hard luck, Mrs. Burden?"

Grandma told him she was sure the Lord had remembered these things to his credit, and had helped him out of many a scrape when he didn't realize that he was being protected by Providence.

Willa Cather