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. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Love is always a battle.

S.W. Frank

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Having the courage to speak one's mind is as important as knowing when the time is right to do so.

Nana Awere Damoah

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

Khaled Hosseini

#16. What a man says when drunk, he thought about whilst sober.

Nana Awere Damoah

#17. The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.

Ai Yazawa

#18. 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

#19. Driving someone into a corner is the equivalent of driving yourself into a corner, so i will die in battle someday.

Ai Yazawa

#20. To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

Ai Yazawa

#21. If you won't push someone up, the least you can do is not to pull him down.

Nana Awere Damoah

#22. Even the ant reached its destination as long as it didn't stop walking.

Nana Awere Damoah

#23. Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

Nana Mouskouri

#24. 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

#25. With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

Nana Mouskouri

#26. Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

Nana Mouskouri

#27. I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.

Nana Mouskouri

#28. Loss taught me about the frailty and transient nature of man. It taught me humility. It taught me about the urgency of service, of touching lives, of mentoring, of legacy. Of making hay while there is still sunshine and life.

Nana Awere Damoah

#29. 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

#30. Marry someone who can grow with you and who can allow you to grow.

Nana Awere Damoah

#31. I learnt years ago not to use logic to understand African politics.

Nana Awere Damoah

#32. You can't plan your life. Life plans for you.

Nana

#33. Ghana will not be built in a day. But it should be built every day and the body that houses the eyes reading this owns the hands that will ensure this.

Nana Awere Damoah

#34. I think sometimes you are born with a song.

Nana Mouskouri

#35. When all you know is how to use a hammer, you think hitting should solve every problem.

Nana Awere Damoah

#36. The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

Nana Mouskouri

#37. In Sikaman, deadlines are on wheels.

Nana Awere Damoah

#38. To be tricked by something so simple... How peaceful must your world must be

Nana Haruta

#39. Hope is a good breakfast but a bad dinner, it has been said, but in Ghana, we have deteriorated to the point of having hope as dessert after dinner. We don't plan anything and the future just seems to happen to us, without our input. All we seem to do is to just show up.

Nana Awere Damoah

#40. 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

#41. I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything ... so I guess I seem indifferent in that way.
Yasu

Ai Yazawa

#42. We should learn as a people to pay good money for the food that feeds the soul and mind, same as we do for the food that feeds the body.

Nana Awere Damoah

#43. 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

#44. If you can't stop feeling guilty about Nana support Nana's dreams and wish her success.

Ai Yazawa

#45. When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

Nana Mouskouri

#46. Don't wait till you have grey hair before you believe people will take you seriously because scientifically, grey hair is a sign of old age and not necessarily of wisdom.

Nana Awere Damoah

#47. 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

#48. Damn her tongue. She really shouldn't be allowed out without a mouth chaperone.

Nana Malone

#49. I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.

Ai Yazawa

#50. I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

Nana Mouskouri

#51. Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.

Nana Visitor

#52. Even now, sometimes on street corners ... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne ... so you can sleep, even alone ...

Ai Yazawa

#53. Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today's happiness I wouldn't worry about tomorrow.

Ai Yazawa

#54. We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us ... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again ...

Ai Yazawa

#55. If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her?
Humans are full of contradictions.

Ai Yazawa

#56. don't turn around and don't ever blame yourself, because it won't be good.

Nana

#57. 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

#58. Don't just give up, Hachiko.
Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time.
If you keep getting up, you win.

Ai Yazawa

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. I was born a singer. I need to do that.

Nana Mouskouri

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. Sometimes isn't it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things.

Ai Yazawa

#65. On a freezing night like this, someone, please warm him up for me- Nana

Ai Yazawa

#66. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." Dutch proverb

Nana Awere Damoah

#67. People say love can be developed, but in the end only person you love is themselves. that's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most. - Takumi

Ai Yazawa

#68. The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am ... and that's what it's about.

Nana Visitor

#69. What people consider precious is different for everybody.

Ai Yazawa

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. When I was singing, everybody liked me.

Nana Mouskouri

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. The politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if there are no cheering crowds.

Nana Awere Damoah

#76. Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

Nana Mouskouri

#77. 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

#78. All children are my children.

Nana Mouskouri

#79. [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

#80. I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

Nana Mouskouri

#81. When you teach kindness to animals, you teach reverence for life in general. The youngster who is taught concern for animals will grow up being kind to his fellow man. It follows, too, that he will not become callous to widespread suffering in any form." Bernard Beck

Nana Awere Damoah

#82. I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

Nana Mouskouri

#83. Words are cheap but they gain greater worth when they first minister to the speaker of the same.

Nana Awere Damoah

#84. It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

Nana Mouskouri

#85. 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

#86. There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

Nana Mouskouri

#87. The more my dream are fulfilled the quicklier they become realities losing their shine.

Ai Yazawa

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. You laugh at love ... but love will make you cry.
- Yasu

Ai Yazawa

#91. A well-rounded head doesn't necessarily house a well-rounded mind.

Nana Awere Damoah

#92. Loss taught me the strength of faith. Faith in a God who understands. Faith in a Saviour who gave His all. Faith in a Comforter who walked by my side.

Nana Awere Damoah

#93. Loss taught me. It taught me that I won't have people around me forever. The good I need to do to someone today, I may not have the opportunity to do tomorrow.

Nana Awere Damoah

#94. Only idiots will be able to attain happiness in life!

Nana Haruta

#95. Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate.
So I think it was fate.

Ai Yazawa

#96. 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

#97. Don't cause wealth loss to your generation! Life is too short to be little. You have an impact to make on your generation and the time to start was yesterday.

Nana Awere Damoah

#98. 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

#99. The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

Nana Mouskouri

#100. The things that stress me out haven't changed.
But I don't wanna lose anything.
So I thought that at least I would change.
I'm lucky ... that I'm afraid of losing something.

Ai Yazawa