Best Nana Quotes & Sayings

Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws for her overflowing guests in Zola's Nana, the walk through Les Halles for breakfast in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and nearly every meal in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt. — Alexander Chee

Life isn't fair," comes the voice of Nana. She has told me that a thousand times. "What matters is how you handle it." I'm going to handle it by winning. — Carolyn Lee Adams

This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality. — Nana Awere Damoah

The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could do to stop it. I grew up living with my Mum, brother and Nana (my mum's mum), so it felt like I lost a parent rather than a grandparent. It makes you realise the fragility of life. — Nikki Sanderson

You are basically a flophouse and a pimp away from Pepcid rehab, you know that? I informed Nana. — Laurie Notaro

Don't cause wealth loss to your generation! Life is too short to be little. You have an impact to make on your generation and the time to start was yesterday. — Nana Awere Damoah

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can. — Nana Mouskouri

I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children. — Nana Mouskouri

Don't under-rate the scope of your influence in your youth. Don't think you have all the time to make a difference in this world. Recognize that both brown and green leaves fall to the ground. — Nana Awere Damoah

Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living the example is the best advice you can ever give. Only examples have children. — Nana Awere Damoah

that amazing row of ab-mountains between hips so narrow even my sweet old Nana would imagine wrapping her legs around them. — Faleena Hopkins

You're afraid, Nana, she might have said. You're afraid that I might find the happiness you never had. And you don't want me to be happy. You don't want a good life for me. You're the one with the wretched heart. — Khaled Hosseini

It's been a year and nine month since we broke up. It's almost the second spring since then. When I turn 20 in March, I'm going to buy myself a much deserved present. A one way ticket to Tokyo. As for luggage, all I need is my guitar and my smokes. - Nana — Ai Yazawa

With my songs I tried to prove that there is love. — Nana Mouskouri

People say love can be developed, but in the end only person you love is themselves. that's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most. - Takumi — Ai Yazawa

Get used to that, Nana. He has a way of appearing out of thin air.'
'Oh my. Asher. Hm. Hm. Hm. Turn around. He's beautiful, Campbell. Are you schtupping my granddaughter?' she asked him.
'No, ma'am.'
'Well, I give you my permission.'
And just liked that, Cam's love life was ruined forever. If and when she ever 'schtupped' Asher, she'd have to do everything she could not to think of her grandmotehr. — Wendy Wunder

Hey, Nana ...
people's feelings change easily ...
what you see is a house of cards ...
nothing's sure,
and nothing lasts forever. — Ai Yazawa

So you have to accept facts as fact. — Ai Yazawa

I, who was empty ... I made myself believe that I could only fill it.. by falling in love ... at that time to me.. in this world around you, Nana ... Everything was so shiny that I was blinded. That doesn't mean that anyone would suit me ... I just wanted to be in the same light as you. — Ai Yazawa

I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands. — Christian Louboutin

I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything ... so I guess I seem indifferent in that way.
Yasu — Ai Yazawa

Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today's happiness I wouldn't worry about tomorrow. — Ai Yazawa

A worker sent a form for salary advance to his manager who refused to sign it based on the reason given. The manager said the situation the worker had stated as an emergency wasn't plausible.

The worker had written that he needed the money for a family emergency: his wife had given birth.

"It is not an emergency," the boss insisted, "you had a nine-month notice. — Nana Awere Damoah

All children are my children. — Nana Mouskouri

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself. — Nana Mouskouri

Look, you were in the wrong, got it? You were a 100 percent at fault!! But I might have been just a little bit wrong too, so I guess I'll be the better person and apologize - though only a little. Sorry. But only a little bit...a really teeny bit. — Nana Haruta

Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere.
-Nana Komatsu — Ai Yazawa

I at least wanted to appear strong and elegant in your eyes just like a manga heroine who's too perfect to be real - Nana
The only person who will ever be my hero is you, Nana - Hachi — Ai Yazawa

It was the way Nana uttered the word - not so much saying it as spitting it at her - that made Mariam feel the full sting of it. — Khaled Hosseini

Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband."
"He's not dead, Nana."
Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal. — Nicholas Sparks

My Nana Westbrook, true as a saint's prayer, always used to say the Devil was a woman thought up by the Good Lord Himself to test a man's mettle and drag him down to Hell if he came up short and, Lordy, I sure as hell kept my granny's wise words to heart, God rest her soul, never once dipping my stick in a place where it might get snapped. — Ojo Blacke

All we know, Midnight. The best of all we know. For Chestry Valley and its master we loved. For Nana. For Sugarloaf and Brimstone Farm. For Pop and Mom and Tom. For the foals to come. For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know. For good-by. — Kate Seredy

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do. — Nana Mouskouri

Sometimes I worry that we're too happy, but then a visit to Nana's house brings things into focus. We're happy because we want to be, because we're pouring our energy and emotion into each other in the best possible way. My — Elle Kennedy

Only idiots will be able to attain happiness in life! — Nana Haruta

When I need a hit of caffeine ... I'll pay S1.00 for coffee. But I'd much rather sip tea at a fancy cafe. I need to live in a hip place. I want to wear cool clothes. I want to see the latest films. I have to have the best cell phone. I want a driver's license. I wanna see the world!
So I need a job. I have to get it together.
I don't mind working for all that stuff. — Ai Yazawa

I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't lose hope - tomorrow will come.Tomorrow will come if we don't lose hope ... I learned that from Nana.But rainy days still make my cheeks wet with tears, even now. It was pouring, on that rainy day. — Ai Yazawa

Driving someone into a corner is the equivalent of driving yourself into a corner, so i will die in battle someday. — Ai Yazawa

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it. — Nana Mouskouri

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." Dutch proverb — Nana Awere Damoah

The idea of the European community is never face a war again. — Nana Mouskouri

My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their indigenes. — Nana Awere Damoah