G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.”
Source: Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France
“Grandmotherly sales clerks present an unusual problem in their tendency to praise Polly for her beauty. 'Aren't you beautiful?' is a common greeting (to which Polly would reply with devastating honesty: 'I know'). This necessitated long speeches from me about the inconsequence of exterior beauty in comparison with the vital importance of interior beauty. The devastating logic of my speeches has now prompted Polly to offer the compromise response, 'I'm beautiful on the inside, too' (sometimes ungraciously adding: 'I have a brother called Bob who's beautiful as well — but he's only beautiful on the inside'). -(from Høstens Vemod)”
Source: Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2017
“Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.”
Source: Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother
“Grandoarea conacului o înfășura într-o lume strălucitoare de marmură, aur și oglinzi. Cu șampania care scânteia in stomacul ei ca o stea nou apărută, i se părea că rătăcește printr-un vis.”
“Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.”
Source: Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years
“Grandpa did everything at his own pace, a speed that my sister and I referred to as 'when snails attack.' ... My grandparents' house was only about ten miles from ours, but the ride there would necessitate sandwiches packed for the trip, and several books to keep us occupied.”
Source: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)
“Grandpa had made the Lord seem so real, I wouldn't of been surprised if he'd said good night to Him. But after a long pause he just said a-men.”
Source: Cold Sassy Tree
“Grandpa Joe was the oldest of the four grandparents. He was ninety-six and a half, and that is just about as old as anybody can be.”
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“Grandpa Mo choked out. "They...they...they are hungry. Very hungry.”
Source: Zombie Halloween
“Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.”
Source: Texas Two-Step
“Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s dog who goes to the bathroom in his flower garden. And know what else?”
Source: The Spy's Little Zonbi
“Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.”
Source: In This Our Life
“Grandpa Sereno: "There is nothing as dangerous as fear, fear of people who are different than you.
Fear is the REAL danger and we must start to put all our efforts into fighting THAT instead of each other. Fight fear not people!!!
Let there be light!”
Source: Teacher of Counsel
“Grandpa?" Declan raised his eyebrows. "We keep him in the shed out back," Jack said helpfully. "So he doesn't eat dog brains.”
Source: On The Edge
“Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day son, a man had to answer for the wicked he done. Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree, round up all the bad boys, and hang them in the streets for all the people to see.”
“Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future.”
“Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.”
“Grandparents and children —they are meant to be handled like eggs.”
“Grandparents are extremely rich folks with silver in their hair and gold in their hearts.”
“Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.”
Source: Family
“Grandparents are God's gifts to children.”
“Grandparents are often a favored target as are siblings. Siblings are often coerced into keeping the gamblers' secrets as well as giving the gamblers money. This can cause even more rifts in the family as the other children begin to lie to the parents to cover for their siblings. The gamblers, in the meantime, will continue to manipulate all these family members in order to achieve their goals of obtaining more money and time to gamble.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.”
Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First
“Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so books can be opened and read, stories can be told... Children then obtain a perspective of life which not only is rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength.”
“Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.”
Source: Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 8th Edition
“Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.”
“Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history.”
“Granje uto zapucketa; vatra zaigra žrtvenikim žovijalno, bogato, brzo djetinje, oštro, zlato joj osvijetli lovčeve crnpuraste ruke. Atra se uspravi, pogleda hrabro u kaos kanjona.
“Što jest?” tada ću zapitati. Ne znam zašto; tek se dogodilo.
“Sve što ima mogućnost ne biti. Ja mislim...”, govori Atra. “I prva je vatra zapaljena po zapovijedi, i prvi korak bio je sanjan. Dolazak, pokret i odlazak, oni su dijelom odluke što je starija.”
“I ako se dovoljno dugo ustraje u njemu, oslobođenje kojem težimo, kao posljedica jedanput možda će i doći; trajno moljeno bit će ispunjeno...?”
“Jer čak se i to događa, da struja moli, a zaboravila je zašto; traženje tako je postalo rutina. I ako li dođe do onog za čim toliko traga, ne oni što čekaju, nego putnik bi se mogao jedini iznenaditi. Opet: ne sjeća se zašto je pošao, ni kuda ide, ni tko ga dočekuje. Ali ovo su misli kojima si putovao ranije.”
Premnogo... i prestvarno, sasvim bez kraja bespuća stijenja te vode u čistom prozircu uždena dana, u plesu vatre i zvuka i vode, provalijom kao platnom prolaze traci dima izgarajućeg drveta usijanog, zametima zažagrenog, lešina je nasmuđena i cvrči već i puši se, pucketa - masti sagorijevaju slijevajući se po drvetu. Ćuhta vjetar i veselo njiše se vrijes, pepeo, vrućina se diže na ljude pred granicom, preda mnom slika vrsnoće i smisla, punano zvuče odsutne riječi Atre:
“Shvaćaš li...? Ljubav su vrata rastanka; to nije borba, kad se i ne odlazi nego prijateljski. Stvarnije odlazak na ono dalje, čišće, bolje, odavdje mi samo možeš pomoći da odem u novo. Na visinama, niskosti nema, slutiš li - još sada, slutiš li...?”
“Nije li onda tako da se ipak i rastajemo...?”
Source: Veliki pad
“Granma's name was Bonnie Bee. I knew that when I heard him late at night say, 'I kin ye, Bonnie Bee,' he was saying, 'I love ye,' for the feeling was in the words.”
Source: The Education of Little Tree
“Granna carried a card in his pocket that said ‘Travish Zarafshan is deaf and mute and doesn’t know sign language,’ and every time the military police stopped him in the street to check his ID, he showed them that. He got a real kick out of doing that too, but Nana didn’t at all find it amusing.”
Source: The Sunshine Time - Season 1 Episode 1
“Granny always made Polly think of biscuits. She had a dry, shortbread sort of way to her, with a hidden taste that came out afterwards. Her kitchen had a biscuit smell to it, a nutty, butter smell like no other kitchen.”
Source: Fire and Hemlock
“Granny always said finding justice was as tough as putting socks on a rooster.”
Source: Glow
“Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.”
“Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as "smell good" and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.”
“Granny Eve had kindly not told the nurse that the UFO in question was a tiddlywink.”
Source: Tumble & Blue
“Granny flats are misnamed. They were once intended for older relatives, so they can live near their adult children and grandchildren. Hence the appellation. Down in the lowlands of Boomertown, there are many such little residences. But they’re not for grannies.
Instead, the buildings should be called ‘children and grandchildren emergency shelters’ because that’s what they’ve become. Whole families cram themselves into a few dozen square metres of space and meanwhile, the grandparents stay in the big main house, rattling around their many empty rooms like rubber balls in a vast squash court.”
Source: A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir
“Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.”
“Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done anything to me.”
Source: Equal Rites
“Granny Sheeran told me when I'm looking for a partner to fall in love with their eyes cause eyes are the only things that don't age, so if you fall in love with their eyes you'll be in love forever.”
“Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”
Source: Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)
“Granny Trill and Granny Wallon were traditional ancients of a kind we won’t see today, the last of that dignity of grandmothers to whom age was its own embellishment. The grandmothers of those days dressed for the part in that curious but endearing uniform which is now known to us only through music-hall. And our two old neighbours, when setting forth on errands, always prepared themselves scrupulously so. They wore high laced boots and long muslin dresses, beaded chokers and candlewick shawls, crowned by tall poke bonnets tied with trailing ribbons and smothered with inky sequins. They looked like starlings, flecked with jet, and they walked in a tinkle of darkness.
Those severe and similar old bodies enthralled me when they dressed that way. When I finally became King (I used to think) I would command a parade of grandmas, and drill them, and march them up and down - rank upon rank of hobbling boots, nodding bonnets, flying shawls, and furious chewing faces. They would be gathered from all the towns and villages and brought to my palace in wagon-loads. No more than a monarch’s whim, of course, like eating cocoa or drinking jellies; but far more spectacular any day than those usual trudging guardsmen.”
Source: Cider With Rosie
“Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.”
Source: A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction
“Granny Weatherwas was not a jouster in the lists of love, but, as an intelligent onlooker, she knew how the game was played.”
“Granny Weatherwax had a primal snore. It had never been tamed. No one had ever had to sleep next to it, to curb its wilder excesses by means of a kick, a prod in the small of the back, or a pillow used as a bludgeon. It had had years in a lonely bedroom to perfect the knark, the graaah, and the gnoc, gnoc, gnoc unimpeded by the nudges, jabs, and occasional attempts at murder that usually moderate the snore impulse over time”
“Granny Weatherwax personally disliked young Pewsey. She disliked all small children, which is why she got on with them so well. In Pewsey's case, she felt that no one should be allowed to wander around in just a vest even if they were four years old. And the child had a permanently runny nose and ought to be provided with a handkerchief or, failing that, a cork.
Nanny Ogg, on the other hand, was instant putty in the hands of any grandchild, even one as sticky as Pewsey
"Want sweetie," growled Pewsey, in that curiously deep voice some young children have.
"Just in a moment, my duck, I'm talking to the lady," Nanny Ogg fluted.
"Want sweetie now."
"Bugger off, my precious, Nana's busy right this minute."
Pewsey pulled hard on Nanny Ogg's skirts.
"Now sweetie now!"
Granny Weatherwax leaned down until her impressive nose was about level with Pewsey's gushing one.
"If you don't go away," she said gravely, "I will personally rip your head off and fill it with snakes."
"There!" said Nanny Ogg. "There's lots of poor children in Klatch that'd be grateful for a curse like that."
Pewsey's little face, after a second or two of uncertainty, split into a pumpkin grin.
"Funny lady," he said.”
Source: Lords and Ladies
“Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.”
Source: Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)
“Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.”
Source: Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)
“Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.”
“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.”
“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.”