Granny Quotes

• Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

  Maggie Smith

  Buckets, Kicks

  "Maggie Smith, of thee we sing". www.usatoday.com. September 16, 2012.

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• When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

  Maggie Smith

  Lucky, Eras

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.

  Kate Middleton

  Dressing Up, Pairs, Wonderful

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• I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Player, Years, Six Year Olds

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• When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, People, Complicated

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Carpe Jugulum: (Discworld Novel 23)”, p.314, Random House

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• And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, People, Sin

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• Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was.

  Terry Pratchett

  Darkness, Mountain, Forests

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• I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat.

  Brian Clough

  Cat, Player, Giving

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• All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.

  Colin Powell

  Love, Mom, Dream

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• He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

  Gary Lineker

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  " My granny could have coached Brazil, says Lineker" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2006.

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• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as wee one.

  Natascha McElhone

  Mother, Brother, Children

  "Natascha McElhone: my family values" by Victoria Lambert, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

  Jimmy Carr

  Night, Words Of Wisdom, Watches

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• Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

  Terry Pratchett

  Art, Actors, World

  "Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• I defy anybody to not look cool with the guns. My granny could look cool doing that!

  Simon Pegg

  Gun, Looks

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?"

  Keith Waterhouse

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

  The Spectator, January 15, 1994.

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• I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Sick

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• Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.

  Terry Pratchett

  Views, People, Losing

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.130, Random House

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• I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is interested, you know you're on to a winner.

  Davina McCall

  Addiction, Winner, Knows

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• Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Real, Differences

  "Witches Abroad". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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• They bombed my granny's chippie, left it completely flat. I'll have her for that

  Jane Couch

  Fighting, Flats, Left

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• [Queen Elizabeth] is just the granny queen! She's our granny queen who shakes people's hands!

  Vanessa Kirby

  Queens, Hands, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.

  John Cleese

  Fun, Party, Aunt

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

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• My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.

  Curtis Stone

  Thinking, Smell, Childhood

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• Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. it meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.

  Terry Pratchett

  Strong, Revenge, Mean

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