Top 100 Quotes About Nana
#1. I used to call my grandmother 'Nana,' so that seems right to me, but maybe I'll just be 'Jade', in that modern way.
Jade Jagger
#2. At that time I told myself that I didn't want to fall in love ever again. But that night while praying for your happiness Nana, I thought that despite all the wounds and all the pains it could cause I wanted to dream again, and love someone with all my heart.
Ai Yazawa
#3. Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud ... But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am, i thought that. This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well..but she never realized how much pain it brought her ... -Nana Komatsu
Ai Yazawa
#4. She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes.
Emile Zola
#5. You're afraid, Nana, she might have said. You're afraid that I might find the happiness you never had. And you don't want me to be happy. You don't want a good life for me. You're the one with the wretched heart.
Khaled Hosseini
#6. His Nana's prayers were moving toward his mother like little butterflies of thoughts wrapped in the most beautiful colors. Each prayer looked like a mini-rainbow.
H. L. Balcomb
#7. Nana, did you really try to run down some antigay protesters?" Dante asked. "Of course not! I'm not homicidal. I may, however, have encouraged them to shut the fuck up," she said.
Alexa Land
#8. Life isn't fair," comes the voice of Nana. She has told me that a thousand times. "What matters is how you handle it." I'm going to handle it by winning.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#9. My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.
Chris Pine
#10. If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder ... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.
Nicholas Sparks
#11. If you can't stop feeling guilty about Nana support Nana's dreams and wish her success.
Ai Yazawa
#12. When I was five, my mother and sister sat me up on the kitchen counter and explained the facts of life: the Easter Bunny didn't exist, Elijah was God's invisible friend, with any luck Nana would die soon and If I ever saw a unicorn, I should kill it or catch it for cash.
Sloane Crosley
#13. It gets more exciting," Imogen assured her. "You must be patient, Galina."
"If it takes too long, I'll be dead," Nana replied.
Gabrielle Zevin
#14. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I was really happy. I kept talking about myself, and didn't hear anything about Nana. But now that I know you better; I know you wouldn't say anything.
Ai Yazawa
#15. Nana glanced at Ben. I think your mom has catepillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.
Nicholas Sparks
#16. In addition to suffering her husband's scathing portrayal of a shrewish wife and mother, Nana Victoria had to sit not more than two seats away from the transsexual wrestler!)
John Irving
#17. It's been a year and nine month since we broke up. It's almost the second spring since then. When I turn 20 in March, I'm going to buy myself a much deserved present. A one way ticket to Tokyo. As for luggage, all I need is my guitar and my smokes. - Nana
Ai Yazawa
#18. On a freezing night like this, someone, please warm him up for me- Nana
Ai Yazawa
#19. That moment I felt a bit like crying. I don't really know why. Nana's hand felt so warm that it even warmed my heart.
Ai Yazawa
#20. If Nana thinks you're trying to scam her, she'll tell you, and if she thinks you ruined her life by discontinuing Arnold's Thin bread, she'll let you know that, too. I guess when you spend eighty-seven years swallowing other people's bullshit, there comes a time when you gotta spit some back.
Laurie Notaro
#21. Vivienne Westwood, The Sex Pistols, Seven Stars, coffee with milk and strawberry cake. And Ren flowers.
Nana's favorite things never change.
It was so cool for someone like me who keeps on changing their mind.
Ai Yazawa
#22. The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.
Ai Yazawa
#23. I at least wanted to appear strong and elegant in your eyes just like a manga heroine who's too perfect to be real - Nana
The only person who will ever be my hero is you, Nana - Hachi
Ai Yazawa
#24. [T]he clouds the miller saw as bags of flour, the draper as unironed calico, the confectioner as baked meringue, old Katina the spinster as a bridal veil and Madame Nana as an extension of her climbing rose, while Savvas admired them fulsomely as just clouds.
Ioanna Karystiani
#25. Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)
Jean-Luc Godard
#26. The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could do to stop it. I grew up living with my Mum, brother and Nana (my mum's mum), so it felt like I lost a parent rather than a grandparent. It makes you realise the fragility of life.
Nikki Sanderson
#27. I'll be with my sister. And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoke signals last year. - Nana
Nicholas Sparks
#28. Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate.
So I think it was fate.
Ai Yazawa
#29. A mother is the person who takes care of you when you're sick. The one who holds you when you're afraid. The one who follows the bus to school on the first day to make sure you made it okay. I have only one mother, Nana; he just happens to be my father, too.
Kat Attalla
#30. Sometimes I worry that we're too happy, but then a visit to Nana's house brings things into focus. We're happy because we want to be, because we're pouring our energy and emotion into each other in the best possible way. My
Elle Kennedy
#31. I wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana
Vinnie Paz
#32. It was the way Nana uttered the word - not so much saying it as spitting it at her - that made Mariam feel the full sting of it.
Khaled Hosseini
#33. Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere.
-Nana Komatsu
Ai Yazawa
#34. I, who was empty ... I made myself believe that I could only fill it.. by falling in love ... at that time to me.. in this world around you, Nana ... Everything was so shiny that I was blinded. That doesn't mean that anyone would suit me ... I just wanted to be in the same light as you.
Ai Yazawa
#35. Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband."
"He's not dead, Nana."
Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.
Nicholas Sparks
#36. I sleep with my baby blanket, Kiki, that my nana made for me.
Rob Kardashian
#37. He'd sit and listen to Nana's Jesus stories all day, but when she turned to the Old Testament prophets, Louis Valentine's little face would darken. He said, I hate it when God is mean!
Donald McCaig
#38. I know it looks vaguely unsanitary and potentially scandalous, Nana, but I promise that Izzy and I are only pursuing noble...pursuits. We've even got a chaperone! Izzy, who was that woman who went into the cave?'
I blanked, not sure how to describe Maya. I settled on, "My...also my Nana.
Rachel Hawkins
#39. All we know, Midnight. The best of all we know. For Chestry Valley and its master we loved. For Nana. For Sugarloaf and Brimstone Farm. For Pop and Mom and Tom. For the foals to come. For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know. For good-by.
Kate Seredy
#40. Nana ... how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why ...
Ai Yazawa
#41. Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.
Gabrielle Zevin
#42. I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.
Laura Carmichael
#43. She's my retirement gift, the platinum watch for being a mother." " This fortunate position - the one you couldn't apply for - is one you can't lose either. It's yours for life: this will always be your daughter's daughter. These two will always be yours, and you, theirs. I'll always be her Nana.
Roxana Robinson
#44. Nana never remarried, but not for lack of offers. She was resolute: it was one thing to be a young man's darling, she said, but she wasn't going to be an old man's slave.
Kate Morton
#45. Say, Nana ... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.
Ai Yazawa
#46. That poor innocent snake was far more terrified of Nana then she ever was of the snake. Cricket could barely believe her eyes, but when that shotgun went off with a boom so did the snake. Up until yesterday, Cricket had never seen a snake fly!
Darwun St. James
#47. Don't worry about him," Nana would assure them. "Michael will do more in his life than you can ever imagine.
Michael J. Fox
#48. An individual is never greater than a nation, Nana. But Gandhi has started considering himself greater than the nation.
Nathuram Vinayak Godse
#49. He wondered how his nana always found beautiful where he never even thought to look.
Matt De La Pena
#50. She can hear me?" "She probably can. I think so." I put his hand on Nana's and my hand on top of his. "Go ahead." "Hi, Nana!" he said as if Nana were hard of hearing, and it was difficult not to laugh. "Inside-the-house voice, buddy," Bree said. "But good enthusiasm there. I'll bet Nana heard you.
James Patterson
#51. Does she say tough cookies?" "Well, no," I confess. "Nana swears like a sailor, actually. Last Christmas she dropped a motherfucker bomb at the dinner table, and my dad nearly choked on his turkey.
Elle Kennedy
#52. Hey, Nana ...
people's feelings change easily ...
what you see is a house of cards ...
nothing's sure,
and nothing lasts forever.
Ai Yazawa
#53. Tears water our eyes.
"Remember," mom soothes, "like the beautiful blooms beneath the weeds, Nana is still Nana underneath.
Kathryn Harrison
#54. I'm not trying to - What do teenagers say nowadays?" he asked my grandmother."Get all up in her biznez," Nana said.Without cracking a smile."That's right," he replied. "We're not trying to get all up in your biznez, Ali.
Gena Showalter
#55. Live until you die." spoken by Nana Antonia in Steve Burt's story "Nana Antonia's Christmas Wish" in Family Circle Magazine. The story is also found as "Christmas Eve 12 Plus 97" in Steve' book, A Christmas Dozen.
Steve Burt
#56. My whole persona is vodka bottles and marijuana The hope in Nana was rockin', inspired from my Mama
Vinnie Paz
#57. She understood then what Nana meant, that a harami was an unwanted thing; that she, Mariam, was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family, home, acceptance.
Khaled Hosseini
#58. The thought that came to mind was a phrase her Nana had often said when she'd found herself in a bad situation. She was up shit creek without a paddle.
C.C. Hunter
#59. He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating."
At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.
Nicholas Sparks
#60. You know Nana, I searched and searched, but could never find the key that unlocked the way. And now that I've stopped looking, I've finally found it. Maybe the door will open for me.
Ai Yazawa
#61. Tell me, Nana,
If for example we had been a love couple,
Would a hug have been enough to wash away my sadness?
Or then; does every single being carry this loneliness, like a burden?
I wans't intending to monopolizing you
I just wanted you to need me.
Ai Yazawa
#62. Luck is personal; we all have our own. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but it's yours, and it follows you wherever you go...And luck can change, because as my nana always insisted, luck was a state of mind.
Lynne Matson
#63. Admittedly, there was a lot she still didn't know about him, but she did know this: He completed her in a way that she'd never thought possible. Knowledge isn't everything, she told herself, and she knew then that, in Nana's words, he was the toast to her butter.
Nicholas Sparks
#64. In this world, not everything will be won by justice. If you want to win, you have to learn how to cheat. (Nana)
Ai Yazawa
#65. If you don't fight for him, you lose! Fight for him!
~Nana Osaki
Ai Yazawa
#66. that amazing row of ab-mountains between hips so narrow even my sweet old Nana would imagine wrapping her legs around them.
Faleena Hopkins
#67. Ah. Alicia, see? Didn't I tell you that's what she needed to begin with? Maybe a little schtupping and it would make the cancer go away. It works with pimples.'
'Nana!
Wendy Wunder
#68. My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world.
Alicia Keys
#69. Nana's French knickers were surely a symbol of liberty and abandonment, worn only by women who didn't care for conventional frills or superficial nametags. Those french knickers were flags blowing in the wind, like a statement of victory.
Diana Janney
#70. Of course Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no night-lights, and it was getting darker every moment, and where was Nana?
J.M. Barrie
#71. You are basically a flophouse and a pimp away from Pepcid rehab, you know that? I informed Nana.
Laurie Notaro
#72. Worst of all were the highly unlikely science-fiction novels, or the equally implausible futuristic tales.
Couldn't my mom and Nana Victoria see for themselves that I was both mystified and frightened by life on Earth?
John Irving
#73. A few seconds later, her reply came in.
WTF an A! I blinked, sure I was misreading. But no, the letters didn't change.
Me: Nana, do U know what WTF means??
Her: Of course silly, it means well, that's fantastic.
Gena Showalter
#74. Oh, boy. Now you see what you've done, Monica Lewinsky, you stupid, stupid tart, I thought. Because of you, I have to explain to my Nana, while she's in a hospital bed with an enlarged gallbladder, what oral sex is. Do you see the damage you've caused? Do you see where your sinful path has led?
Laurie Notaro
#75. All of a sudden, in the good-natured child, the woman stood revealed, a disturbing woman with all the impulsive madness of her sex, opening the gates of the unknown world of desire. Nana was still smiling, but with the deadly smile of a man-eater.
Emile Zola
#76. Nana used to say whenever you start feeling like the world is taking a bite out of you, bite back by counting your blessings.
C.C. Hunter
#77. Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown
J.M. Barrie
#78. Hey, Hachi
People always say that you only discover how precious something is after you lose it
but I think, you only really recognize it ... when you see it a second time face to face.
-Nana Osaki
Ai Yazawa
#79. When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.
Jordin Sparks
#80. That fiend! Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.
J.M. Barrie
#81. Every time I get happy
the Nana-hex comes through.
Birds turn into plumber's tools,
a sonnet turns into a dirty joke,
a wind turns into a tracheotomy,
a boat turns into a corpse ...
Anne Sexton
#83. I don't care if I'm loved back, I still want to love someone.Someone, from the bottom of my heart ... Straightforward, unwavering ... It seems like such a simple thing, so then why ... Must it be so incredibly hard?
Ai Yazawa
#84. People can have lovers..they can have friends..they can be together..but when you think about it..you'll see that originally..we're alone
Ai Yazawa
#86. People will doubt you, but do you doubt your own self? People will insult your integrity, but do you trust yourself? If you are at peace with yourself and with God, you can be at peace with the world.
Nana Awere Damoah
#87. Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.
Nana Awere Damoah
#88. My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their indigenes.
Nana Awere Damoah
#89. Having the courage to speak one's mind is as important as knowing when the time is right to do so.
Nana Awere Damoah
#90. We must learn to judge potential partners by the content of their character and the compatibility of temperament and life purpose, not by the chemical reaction of hormones and physical attraction, and not by the superficial value system of the European.
Nana Kwaku Opare
#91. For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
Nana Mouskouri
#92. I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
Khaled Hosseini
#94. The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.
Ai Yazawa
#95. Driving someone into a corner is the equivalent of driving yourself into a corner, so i will die in battle someday.
Ai Yazawa
#96. To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?
Ai Yazawa
#97. If you won't push someone up, the least you can do is not to pull him down.
Nana Awere Damoah
#98. Even the ant reached its destination as long as it didn't stop walking.
Nana Awere Damoah
#99. Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Nana Mouskouri
#100. With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
Nana Mouskouri
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