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Grandmothers Quotes (page 4)

Edwidge Danticat quote: "If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there..."
If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters. Edwidge Danticat
Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother. Terry Prachett
My grandmother used to tell us a story of a mountain of loadstone. When any vessels came near it, they were instantly deprived of their ironwork: the nails flew to the mountain, and the unhappy crew perished amidst the disjointed planks. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'd long wondered if I were really a civilized person, though I kept striving to be one. I knew that at the moment I'd said I would take care of Lorena myself, I had meant it. There was something pretty savage inside me, and I'd always controlled it. My grandmother had not raised me to be a murderess. Charlaine Harris
I wish there was a song called “Nguyen and Ari,” a little ditty about a hardworking Vietnamese girl who helps her parents withthe franchised Holiday Inn they run, and does homework in thelobby, and Ari, a hardworking Jewish boy who does volunteerwork at his grandmother’s old-age home, and they meet afterschool at Princeton Review. They help each other study for the. SATs and different AP courses, and then, after months of study-ing, and mountains of ashcards, they kiss chastely upon hear-ing... Mindy Kaling
Reminds me of something my grandfather would say. He'd say, "I'm goin' upstairs to fuck your grandmother." He was an honest man, and he wasn't going to bullshit a four-year-old. George Carlin
I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect. Alice Hoffman
Anne Lamott quote: "Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a..."
Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily. Anne Lamott
Augusten Burroughs quote: "I didn't begin life hating my grandmother. Like every child, I..."
I didn't begin life hating my grandmother. Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her. Augusten Burroughs
Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken... Tove Jansson
He looked as if he'd got a lot of pleasure out of going ten rounds with your grandmother and making sure she went the whole distance. Richard Brautigan
Kenzaburo Oe quote: "It's a little bit like what Akari said to his grandmother in..."
It's a little bit like what Akari said to his grandmother in Shikoku, during her final illness: 'Please cheer up and die! Kenzaburo Oe
A great many men are kept out of the kingdom of God because they are looking for somebody else’s experience—the experience their grandmother had, their aunt, or some one in the family. Dwight L. Moody
... He remembered once hearing his grandmother... say plaintively: "Why daughter, I presume I can go without -- BUT I CAN'T ECONOMIZE. Edith Wharton
Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stoveand the child draws another inscrutable house. Elizabeth Bishop

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