Quotes by Grandmother My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on. Aaron Brookner grandmother notebook writing My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that. Adam Sandler pick-me-up grandmother school People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile. Adriana Trigiani grandmother memories people My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast. Aeriel Miranda grandmother hero trying I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother. Agnes Varda grandmother twenties real I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me. Aisha Hinds grandmother passion heart I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in "The Word" and filled the atmosphere with worship. Though I developed my own personal spiritual relationship later in life, the foundation they laid is what my faith was built upon. Aisha Hinds grandmother later-in-life spiritual Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers. Al Franken grandmother focus children My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England. Alan Bradley grandmother husband air I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England. Alan Bradley great-love grandmother book No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much. Alane Ferguson grandmother cutting interesting You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. Albert Einstein grandmother grandma mom Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. Alex Haley grandmother life children The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white. Alfonso Cuaron grandmother black-and-white moon My look is more grandmother’s leftovers than heroin chic. Alice Glass leftovers grandmother looks 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. Alice Hoffman grandmother sky thinking I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect. Alice Hoffman cold grandmother perfect My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible. Alice Hoffman overwhelmed grandmother past 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. Alice Hoffman grandmother reading book My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on Earth. I wish I could say that in that moment in the kitchen she decided to quit drinking, but I now saw that drinking was a part of what made her who she was. If the worst of what she left on Earth was a legacy of inebriated support, it was a good legacy in my book. ~Susie's grandmother, Lynn pgs 315-316 Alice Sebold grandmother drinking book 1234567891011»