Top 1200 Your Grandmother Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something nice to eat.

My grandmother was very funny. It skipped a generation.

If you'd asked me when I was younger what life would be like in my 50s, I'd probably have imagined someone like my grandmother. I'd have looked like a little old lady who went for a shampoo and set every week. But it's funny - when you get to your 50s it's not like that at all because apart from a few aches and pains, I feel like I'm in my 30s.

An actress of my calibre is not afraid of playing a grandmother!

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.

I went to church with my grandmother every Sunday.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

Your movie becomes much more narrow-minded when you have like-minded department heads. Whereas if you can surround yourself with people who have been a mother before, been a grandmother before, you get a much broader and wide-reaching swath of human emotions.

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.

My mom and my grandmother are probably two of the strongest women that I know.

I have children; I hope to be a grandmother one day.

Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother

My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall.

I have to feel like my grandmother was my first mix engineer.

My grandmother and father both had diabetes.

My grandmother has a great aesthetic sense. Unfortunately I didn't inherit it.

I was raised cooking my grandmother's food, my mom's recipes.

Well, my grandmother, she raised me in public housing.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.

My grandmother is very liberal, but... she still has her opinions.

My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

My Indian grandmother was born in Punjab.

I think my grandmother was one of my biggest influences.

My grandmother's house was a one room shack.

It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion.

For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.

I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.

I watched my great-grandmother be buried on FaceTime.

Being a grandmother is an out-of-the-world feeling.

My mother and grandmother both had beautiful skin.

My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.

We've got so many different cultural groups in my family that I've had to learn to accommodate them in different ways. My father speaks different to my mum. My mum speaks different to my grandmother. Everybody speaks different, so you find you start tweaking your language to be more accessible to people.

Some day I want to play a grandmother. And a foxy one at that!

Becoming a grandmother has felt like being a mother.

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.

My look is more grandmother’s leftovers than heroin chic.

I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.

[My grandmother] is a typical white person.

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

Every house needs a grandmother in it.

My grandmother was the genesis of my connection and passion to food.

My grandmother is from Martinique, so sometimes I'm ashamed that I don't speak Creole.

My grandmother made dying her life's work.

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.

My grandmother is the black-sheep rebel of the family.

I inherited my love of gold jewellery from my grandmother.

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

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.

My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.

I never wanted my grandmother to leave my side.

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.