Top 1200 Great Grandmother Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on October 16, 2024.
I remember my grandmother drying wild coffee berries in the sun, then hulling and roasting them for her own cup of coffee each morning.
Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.
On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.
It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.
I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.
My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
Manchester United are a great club, and being associated with them is a great compliment for me, but Atletico are also great.
You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.
Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all about do-it-yourself at the moment.
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.
Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.
It's great to see wrestling expand and get the attention it deserves. It's such a great, great sport.
And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.
I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.
Much is written about parenting - its joys and tribulations - and then about the transition into hot flushes, night sweats and (if we're lucky) a new life as a grandmother.
It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused.
It was tough leaving Boston with a great city, a great organization and a great bunch of guys.
I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.
Flip Saunders is a great coach and a great guy. Glen Taylor is the same way. He's a great human being.
I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother.
There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.
Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children.
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life.
My grandmother raised me for a good portion of my life. She moved to Los Angeles with me to be an actor, so I've always had a connection with an older generation.
Nothing great was ever achieved without great work and great effort. It's really that simple.
Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.
The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.
In Quanzhou, I have a lot of influence from superstition. I would go to the temple with my grandmother and mother. That is why I have a lot of curiosity about the unseen force and invisible things.
A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.
I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.
I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.
My grandmother would start making her meat sauce at 7 in the morning on Sunday, and within five or six hours, that smell would be all through the house.
I brought a lot of images of pieces I got from my grandmother, pieces I collected over time and then we met with a designer and we tried to morph all my inspirations into one story.
I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.
I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.
She ain't my queen. My grandmother is my queen, and my auntie, my cousin, my daughters... the Queen's never done anything for me.
The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.
When I was growing up, and periodically going to India to visit my grandmother, my classmates would often ask me about the trains. There was an exotic fascination with people sitting on top of the carriages.
I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
No matter what your background or where you are from, the one thing we can all respect is when great athletes and great passion leads to great achievements.
I've been given the tools necessary to be a great musician, a great entertainer, and great person that's gonna inspire everyone.
I'm a guy who was born in Cincinnati and whose entire family except for my mother still lives in Cincinnati - my grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, you name it.
My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a 'lively imagination.' She told us that she was a direct descendant of Sir Christopher Wren.
America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.
Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and
'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.
My mother was an extremely strong Pueblo woman. My grandmother was the same. I had strong women in my life. My aunties who were there for me every step of the way.
I have a great band from Jersey and New York. I say that because they got great attitude, and we have a great time on stage.
I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors.
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
The only thing I knew would make my grandmother more proud than watching my TV courtroom was to see me dressed up in white tie doing the foxtrot.
There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.
My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them
My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.
