Best My Grandmother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 8

“Since you are determined to be married, Miss Cornelia," said Gilbert solemnly, "I shall give you the excellent rules for the management of a husband which my grandmother gave my mother when she married my father." "Well, I reckon I can manage Marshall Elliott," said Miss Cornelia placidly. "But let us hear your rules." "The first one is, catch him." "He's caught. Go on." "The second one is, feed him well." "With enough pie. What next?" "The third and fourth are-- keep your eye on him.”

Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

“I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion.”

Said Dad Eating Tired Graves Grandmother Rolling My Grandmother Recipes I'm Tired Indigestion

Book:The Schwa was Here

Source: The Schwa was Here

“My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?”

Used Path Crosses Grandmother My Grandmother Twisted

Book:Downsiders

Source: Downsiders

“Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years. It was all still with me, the storage space in my brain crammed with vivid memories, packed and piled like photographs and old dresses in my grandmother’s bureau. I wasn’t just the madwoman in the attic — I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.”

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“My grandmother used to say that there's something truly intimate about sharing food with the people you love." [Stacey] "Intimate? Sharing food? People you love?" Amber raises an eyebrow. "Um, no offense, Stace, but it sounds like Gram was into food kink.”

People Used Sound Raises Intimate Grandmother Offense My Grandmother Eyebrows Amber Kink Sharing Food Stacey

Author:Laurie Faria Stolarz

“Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.”

Children Secret Safe Release Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:The Peach Keeper: A Novel

Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel

“Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.”

Men Years Children Two Stories Running Lying Secret Wife Rivers Army University Grandmother Tyrants Grandfather Tigers My Grandmother My Grandfather Great Love Surgeons Deathless

Book:The Tiger's Wife

Source: The Tiger's Wife

“It’s all right,” the boy murmured as he felt her trembling. “My grandmother always told me ‘Never try to turn back on a new road—you don’t know what adventures await you.”

Knows Trying Turns Felt Boys Adventure Grandmother My Grandmother Trembling New Roads

Book:The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series

Source: The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series

“The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man.”

Men Pleasure Lessons Mortals Grandmother Priests My Grandmother Doom Wrong Man

Author:N.K. Jemisin

“Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.”

Has Beens Sorry Grandmother Sympathy Loved Ones My Grandmother Kill Me Etiquette

Book:Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set

Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set

“The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.”

Source: Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home

“The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape.”

“Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)”

Persons Long Said Stills Real Mother Dies Realizing Alive Mom Truth Is Died Assuming Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:John Green

“You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage.”

Knows Years Stills Running Night Three Ought Married Ashamed Staying Grandmother Forty Three Years My Grandmother All Night Years Of Marriage

Book:Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

Source: Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

“To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”

Thinking Son Grandmother My Grandmother Womb Tempest Gonzalo From Tempest

Book:The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge exists in my capacity to love. If I can learn to love death then I can begin to find refuge in change.”

Ifs I Can Mother Found Bears Bird Capacity Rivers Grandmother Discovering Refuge My Grandmother Capacity To Love Love Death

Book:Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

“My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be inside: e.e. cummings, flower petals, a handful of buttons. She seems to have lost sight of the original purpose of the brown bag." - Lennie "Or maybe she thinks other forms of nourishment are more important." - Joe”

Thinking Knows Important Seems Form Purpose Lost Flower Sight Originals Brown Bags Grandmother Lunch Buttons My Grandmother Handful Nourishment Petals Lennie

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

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

Knows Bird Red Grandmother My Grandmother Grandma Cardinals Regal

Author:Kris Carr

“You’re going to be my grandmother.” “You silly child. In my heart, I’ve been your grandmother for years. I’ve just been waiting for you to make it official.”

Years Heart Children Waiting My Heart Silly Officials Grandmother My Grandmother Waiting For You Your Grandmother

Author:Julia Quinn

“My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.”

“I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.”

Ifs Said Moments Half Figures Depends Empty Drinking Glasses Grandmother Splits My Grandmother Pouring Hesitation Half Full Half Empty

Author:Bill Cosby

“Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way.”

Ifs Way Book Different Dies Reading House Interest Forever Goes On Bed Bottom Work Out Stuck Kitchen Lakes Grandmother My Grandmother Couches Pillow Ponds

Author:Alice Hoffman

“My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.”

Together Used Order Courses Asks Father Break Bread Grandmother My Grandmother Riddle

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.”

Said Remember Forget Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“I’m not trying to—What do teenagers say nowadays?” he asked my grandmother.“Get all up in her biznez,” Nana said.Without cracking a smile.“That’s right,” he replied. “We’re not trying to get all up in your biznez, Ali.”

Trying Said Teenager Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts

Source: The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts

“I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?”

Said Left Seeing Missing Wounds Grandmother Scar My Grandmother

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that she’d never loved another the way she’d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush”

Way Giving Heart Said Mother Father Left Given Memories Love You Mines Baby Dad My Dad Rings Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather Passed Away Fond Memories

Author:Abbi Glines

“I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter.”

Littles Said I Can Use Might Able Race Promise Grandmother My Grandmother Hasty Getaways Scooters

Book:The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts

Source: The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts

“If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one." It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone had ever spoken to W. W. Hale the Fifth in that manner. Kat was also fairly certain it wouldn't be the last. "I might lose my grandmother's company." Kat gave a smile and held Hale tight. "You won't lose me.”

Ifs Want Firsts Might Lasts Certain Loses Company Safe First Time Victim Assuming Grandmother My Grandmother Fifth Hale

Author:Ally Carter

“I always make sure there’s an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.”

Ifs Needs Soul Dies Sleep Rooms Forever Doors Taught Window Opening Grandmother Inches Trapped My Grandmother Exit

Author:Tablo

“Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist.”

Ifs I Can Imagine Mines Dating Lovely Grandmother Racist My Grandmother Discussing Gansey Your Grandmother Lovely Woman

Book:The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

“My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.”

Wanted School Learning Grandmother Far Away My Grandmother Good Education

Author:Margaret Mead

“Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.”

People Want Feels Pain Sound Hurt Advice Anger Angry Folks Grandmother My Grandmother Grandma Sound Advice

Author:Walter Inglis Anderson

“My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .”

“Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.”

Winning Sports Gold Athlete Grandmother Olympics My Grandmother Medal Gold Medals Olympic Athlete Olympic Medals Winter Olympics

Author:Charles Barkley

“I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.”

Men World Want Children Made Two Dream Born Poor Sweet Daughter Raised Selling My Children Grandmother Grandchildren Defects My Grandmother Corn Countryside My Grandchildren Two Daughters

Author:Hugo Chavez

“Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.”

Mean Funny Taught Brother My Brother Grandmother Grandparent Grandchildren Brothers And Sisters My Grandmother Sibling Grandma Your Brother Grandpa Peas Children And Grandchildren My Grandchildren Parents And Grandparents My Siblings Brotherly Brotherly Love My Grandma Brother Sister Your Grandmother Siblings Sisters Grandchildren And Grandparents Grandparents From Grandchildren Cute Sibling Mother And Grandmother Siblings Brothers Great Grandparents Funny Grandparent Great Grandchildren Siblings Sisters And Brothers My Little Brother Grandmother And Grandchildren Mother Grandmother Funny Grandmother Funny Brother And Sister Funny Brother Sister Being A Grandmother Being Pretty Cute Brother And Sister Funny Sibling Grand Mother Happy Mothers Day Grandmother Funny Grandchildren Cute Brother Sister Grandmas And Moms Being A Grandma Funny Brother Great Grandpa Brother Love Cute Brother Love My Brother

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.”

“Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.”

Source: Folly as It Flies

“My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'”

Wells Looks Speak Taught Gentleman Grandmother Southern Grandparent My Grandmother Parents And Grandparents Your Grandmother Grandparents Day Mother And Grandmother Great Grandparents Great Grandmother Grandmas And Moms Mothers Day Grandma Southern Gentleman

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.”

Source: Blkberry Winter

“If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.”

“A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.”

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed. With Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius and Writings, by N. Rowe

“Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.”