Alice Merton Quotes

My love of baking might have originated with my grandmother. She had a lemon tree growing in her backyard, and one of my favorite memories is of picking lemons together and then baking lemon bars.

My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.

I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic to hear them, and they really can sing. I don't talk to them so much about 'Abba' and the past, but as they get older, they will become more aware.

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

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

The one thing I could do with my eyes closed is my Grandma's schnecken.

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

I'm a grandma at heart.

I love to cook. My mom taught me to cook at a very, very young age.

With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.

Creating a meal for somebody, it's a way to show your love.

There was a period when I had apple pie as a treat every day of the week. I mean, like, a family apple pie.

All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way.

The most beautiful thing in the world is my grandmother's apple pie.

Both of my grandmothers have always been really good bakers, and I was always in the kitchen helping them. Obviously I can't eat a lot of the things that I make, but just baking it and giving it to someone makes me feel really good.

Now I have a deal with Swarovski! Growing up, my grandma, mum, and I collected the crystals, so that is really incredible.

My grandchildren love cooking, and it doesn't have to be sweet things.

I pretty much grew up with my grandma. She would pull a stool over to the kitchen, and I would climb up at the kitchen counter, and I'd help her make biscuits.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.

My son Tusshar has given me a wonderful reason to be grateful for my life. My grandson has brought such joy in my family's lives.

As I was growing up, all meals, including breakfast, were family occasions, and you all sat down to eat together - and you had to finish everything as well.

We were both into motocross. My dad would wake me up at 6:30 on weekends, brew some coffee and make some sandwiches for us. Then we'd spend the day racing together. I know he had this reputation as being wild and irresponsible, but I never saw any of that.

My da used to sing 'Take Her Up to Monto' to me when we were walking down the street - he still does, actually - because it's got a walking tempo, and I still sing it to myself when I'm walking along.

My sister, mom, and I always make holiday treats like Christmas cutout cookies and red and green chocolate chip cookies.