Grandmother Figure Quotes

We have become a grandmother.

My grandma was very traditional, but she herself is a rebel of that culture.

My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.

My grandmother was the matriarch. If you didn't have a place to stay, if you needed food, if you were just coming out of jail or rehab, you went to her. Watching her in our family and our wider community was what inspired me and still does.

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character.

I grew up in a house that was the traditional African-American home that was dominated by a matriarch, and that matriarch was my grandmother. She was tough. She was strong. She was powerful.

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic.

I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

My nana is elegant, classy, and the most amazing woman that has ever walked this earth.

I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.

My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.

so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.

I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and praying over me.

Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.

My grandma was a very traditional woman but, at the same time, would want me to have kids.

My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's been a huge influence on our entire family, not just me. She is a mystery. It's not clear exactly what about her is truth and myth.

I'm like an international girl all day long. But I love the black women in my life: my grandmother, my mom.

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

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.