Grandma Quotes - Page 9

• Maybe it was me," Grandma said."Sometimes they sneak out.Did I fart?

  Janet Evanovich

  Sometimes, Fart, Said

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “To the Nines”, p.51, Macmillan

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• My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

  Steve Carell

  Death, New York, Husband

  "Steve Carell: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2013.

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• I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Tired, Your Boyfriend

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• Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew.

  Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

  Booze, Enjoy, Giggle

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• I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

  Adele

  Self Esteem, Believe, Eye

  "Adele: the girl with the mighty mouth". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• Her, cheer up. Zoey's grandma didn't say the Raven Mockers actually ate people. She said they just picked them up with their humongous beaks and threw them against a wall or whatever over and over again until every bone in their body was broken." - Aphrodite LaFonte

  P. C. Cast

  Cheer, Wall, Ravens

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Grandma Mazur stood two feet back from my mother. "I gotta get me a pair if those," she said, eyeballing my shorts. "I've still got pretty good legs, you know." She raised her skirt and looked down at her knees. "What do you think? You think I'd look good in them biker things?" Grandma Mazur had knees like doorknobs.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Thinking, Two

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• The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Blood, Chef, Culinary

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• Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sweet, Hurt, Dad

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• The dog ran into the kitchen, stuck his nose in Grandma's crotch, and snuffled. Dang," Grandma said. "Guess my new perfume really works. I'm gonna have to try it out at the seniors meeting.

  Janet Evanovich

  Senior, Dog, Kitchen

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hot Six: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.93, St. Martin's Press

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• My father hired you to protect me," Ahmed said, "not to go off chasing men." Grandma leaned forward, keeping her eye on the Taurus. "We think this guy killed Fred." "Who's Fred?" "My uncle," I told him. "He's married to Mabel." "Ah so you're avenging a murder in the family. This is a good thing.

  Janet Evanovich

  Uncles, Father, Eye

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.529, Macmillan

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• Aren't you something," Grandma said. "I never saw a midget up close." "Little person," Briggs said. "And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either.

  Janet Evanovich

  Littles, Saws, Said

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.108, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

  Emma Watson

  Listening, Radio, Accents

  "The Graduate". Interview with Will Self, www.nytimes.com. August 17, 2012.

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• Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother.

  Margaret Whitlam

  Children, Grandmother, Grandpa

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• The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.

  Mell Lazarus

  Children, Grandpa, Secret

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• He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.

  James Finn Garner

  House, Action, Carnivores

  James Finn Garner (2011). “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories”, p.6, Souvenir Press

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• One night as I girl I spied my grandma and one of her sisters outside, holding hands and singing, "Sprites of the night are we, are we. Singing and dancing joyfully." It was witchy and wonderful because it meant there was power in joy. They were not afraid of the night because they were giggling. I am very interested in finding the surprising boundaries, for instance, where do joy and fear meet?

  Samantha Hunt

  Girl, Night, Dancing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have meditated in the last two or three years. To discover what it means to sit and let sounds and movement wash over you has been brilliant. In some ways, that helped me understand where my grandma had gone. She had gone to a different world that we aren't quite connected to.

  Hannah Peel

  Mean, Over You, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was so desperate to get a job on TV (with no money), that I dressed as an old lady, went to the TV channel and said to security that I was the producer's grandma and had brought him lunch.

  Omar Chaparro

  Jobs, Lunch, Tvs

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days.

  Jo Brand

  People, Lucky, Matter

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• I’m going back to bed,” Grandma said when Mooner and Dougie left. “This doesn’t look too interesting. I liked it better the other night when you were on the floor with the bounty hunter.” Morelli gave me the same kind of look Desi always gave Lucy when she’d just done something incredibly stupid. “It’s a long story,” I said. “I bet.

  Janet Evanovich

  Stupid, Night, Long

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.702, Macmillan

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• I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: Wouldn't it be fun if we were all gorgeous and didn't have a care? But creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, I'm stupid, isn't it cute? makes me want to throw daggers at them! I want to say to them, My grandma did not fight for what she fought for, and my mother did not fight for what she fought for, so you can start telling women it's fun to be stupid. Saying that to young women, little girls, my daughter? It's not OK.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Cute, Girl, Daughter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.

  Suzanne Collins

  Reality, Years, Ideas

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.13, Scholastic Inc.

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• Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

  Kris Carr

  Grandmother, Bird, Red

  "Love, Eat, Heal" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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• I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the sides. I used an old Mason jar that had once held Grandma Blake's green beans. Larry fished out a peanut butter jar with the label still on it. Extra-crunchy. Yum-Yum.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Glasses, Hands, Special

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.263, Penguin

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