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No matter what you do, your grandmother thinks it's wonderful.
Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.
Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother.
A Grandmother thinks of her grandchildren day and night, even when they are not with her.She will always love them more than anyone would understand.
If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!
I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.
This is where I break one last taboo: I'm incredibly glad I'm not a granny.
If she wasn't your grandmother I'd shoot her.
Ranger
What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren.
My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.
My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
Kicking the Bucket Aunt
She was Grandma Will. That term felt foreign and unfitting to the relationship they had. She wondered if her father had ever called her Mother, Ma, Mom, Mama? Maybe in private he might have, but to the world, all the world, it was Aunt Will.
It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.
my grandmother would freak you the fuck out.
When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
My grandmother is a famous atlas.
I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave.
My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised.
Seeing Grandma this way, it makes me know for certain that everything about a person will show up in another person in the family.
My mom never wanted to be a grandmom. She never wanted to be a mom, really.
Grandparents are God's gifts to children.
There's something special about a grandmother's house. You never forget how it smells.
Why is your grandmother such a bitch to me?"
"Did you just call my ancient, wrinkly, half-crazy grandmother a bitch?" Ian laughs.
"Well, that's what she is!"
Ian shakes his head with another laugh. "Yeah, she is
grandmothers. Elephants
A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
The whole house smells of Granny. There's something quite special about a granny's house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells.
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.
work and carried on until she was seventy-two. Grandad worked in a nearby mill
Oh, Grandmother, what terribly big teeth you have!
Grandma always has an opinion, especially about other people.
I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.
As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.
granny-humping butt sucker!
Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand.
My grandmother
had no time for old,
no matter how her face crinkled
or her days folded like an apron around
her middle.
grandmother's, and even as her lips curved,
My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher or wherever and tell people, 'My grandson is going to be the next Calvin Klein.'
photographs at my grandmother's house - her
Disrespectful! My grandmothers are both dead."
"Well, Jesus. What did they die of?"
"Mom always said 'meddling.
That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
I was the only one who knew what she was really like. My grandma was one evil cu**".
Mama' (literally, maternal uncle),
Not your girlfriend?" Grandmother guessed. "Well, she should be, you dolt! Don't let her get away. You need strong women in your life, if you haven't noticed. Now, to business.
One day I'll be a grandma who's been gangbanged.
Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.
A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.
To know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.
I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.
As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me.
My grandfather and I were very close.
I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm ... and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.
become great friends with Grandmother.' Mrs Nesbitt informs me, in her sweet, winsome way, that it is extremely important for a woman in her position to have her own life and her own circle of friends. She would not, she adds, be averse to marrying again.
My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things ... like photo shoots!
Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.
[My grandmother] is a typical white person.
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word "elderly" in my copy over the years, and you will not be surprised to hear that the older I got the less often I used the word elderly in print.
I thought grandmothers had to like you. It's a law or something.
MR. GEORGE MOTHER MARGARET
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
Grandma loved helping people, especially if it was against their will. "Let's
My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.
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.
My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.
Her great-great-great-great-great grandmother had been burned as a witch.
My grandmother made dying her life's work.
Go, my dear, and see how thy grandmamma does, for I hear she has been very ill; carry her a custard, and this little pot of butter.
A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.
My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met
When the chips are down, grandmothers can be counted on to do whatever's necessary. When the chips are down for grandfathers, we just go into the kitchen and get more chips.
I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch over younger women, children, community and also, why not? this mistreated planet, the victim of such unrelenting desecration.
My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.
I don't think grandma's a very good influence on us.
Maybe our grandmothers weren't as stupid as we thought. The family, volunteer work, religion, shaping the hearts and minds of the next generation-maybe all that can't be reduced to just 'shining floors and wiping noses.'
I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.
Grandma; it was to grandma I truly wanted to have returned, but she was no more. I could only remember the day she died. The tears mother shed on me, as if I was going to face a more difficult world than any other member of our family. Pg.100
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
Don't go thinking you can bounce me all over the ground just because I look like somebody's grandmother," the woman said dryly. "Some grandchildren need more raising than others, and I supply it," she grinned, showing very white teeth. -- Esa Bell, Shang Wildcat
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.
In England, I'm this venerable old granddad, the one who always gets pissed at parties and puts a lampshade on his head.
When my ma went off a old woman called Aunt Emmaline kep' me. (She kep' all de orphunt chillun an' dem who's mammas had been sent off to de breedin' quarters. When dem women had chillun dey brung 'em an' let somebody lak Aunt Emmaline raise em.)
I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma."
"You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma.
Grandfather was a tree
I love being a grandparent. I'm one of those you want to avoid - I pull out the iPhone and say, 'Hey, wanna see my camera roll?'
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.
Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.
Grandmothers can grow wings just to fly and rescue their grandchildren, that's grandma's love.
Aunt May, my sweet Aunt May, who taught me how to knit, who bought me a piece of candy every time we went to the store, jabbed a cocktail fork at my eye.
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.