Quotes About Mothers And Grandmothers

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. We think back through our mothers and grandmothers, if we are women.

Virginia Woolf

#4. At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.

Kathleen Turner

#5. Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

Marina Warner

#6. Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#7. Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

Alice Walker

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. I saw a pattern forming, like a series of skipping stones that sent ripples through the generations: all the granddaughters and grandmothers who loved each other, all the mothers left stranded in between.

Nadja Spiegelman

#12. My grandmother, a dim, stern figure, named her children Lily and Violet, which I guess from seeing a picture of my mother's paved, ugly backyard, was the nearest she came to a garden.

Emma Joy Crone

#13. My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Dalai Lama

#14. Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

Marianne Moore

#15. She's against it on principle, and life isn't run on principles but by adjustments

Margaret Atwood

#16. For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

Sheryl Sandberg

#17. Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. ...and this is what grandmothers and mother-in-law and mothers do. They fight for the good.

Fredrik Backman

#19. Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving birth don't make the same mistakes as their mothers or grandmothers-they make new ones.

Elizabeth Noble

#20. Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.

Marcel Proust

#21. I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

Ian MacKaye

#22. The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

Simeon Strunsky

#23. We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

Jack Wagner

#24. All exercises that you do with your own bodyweight are great.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#25. If I did have a tumor, I would name it Marla. Marla, the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you would stop tonguing it, but you can't.

Chuck Palahniuk

#26. Mothers, Grandmothers, and Mother Nature are the best doctors around.

Robert S. Mendelsohn

#27. The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us that dreams are realised naturally. For this is the Miracle of Life.

Azelene Williams

#28. Be careful the environment you choose, for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone

#29. And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.

Zora Neale Hurston

#30. I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

Eva Longoria

#31. 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

#32. Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

Terence McKenna

#33. Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

Leonard Susskind

#34. What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

Katharine Hepburn

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. Banks can't recoup the costs of serving customers who save in small amounts and transact frequently.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#38. I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.

Gordon Brown