Grandmom Quotes & Sayings

Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam. — Mahatma Gandhi

I don't like anything that's got to be. I want to know why. — Isaac Asimov

When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on. Maybe your grandmom and your grandpop have something to add to the name of the child. — Dikembe Mutombo

My mom never wanted to be a grandmom. She never wanted to be a mom, really. — Pink

If she were honest, she'd admit to being very attracted to Creighton Matheson. Something about him formed a large P in her heart ---for passion, protection and permanence. Wasn't P Paisley's favorite letter? — Vonnie Davis

The room smelled of old cigarsmoke. He leaned and turned off the little brass lamp and sat in the dark. Through the front window he could see the starlit prairie falling away to the north. The black crosses of the old telegraph poles yoked across the constellations passing east to west. — Cormac McCarthy

I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that. — Mavis Staples

I've forgotten about these things all winter, but here they are again, and when I see them I remember them, I know them, I greet them as if they are home. — Margaret Atwood

While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it. — John Sharp

A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth. — Ambrose Bierce

Maurice Blanche maintained that amid the tales, the smokescreens, and the deceptive mirrors of life's unsolved mysteries, truth resides, waiting for someone to enter its sanctum, then leave, without quite closing the door behind them. That is when truth may make its escape. — Jacqueline Winspear

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. — Arnold H. Glasow

You're telling me a shape-shifting demon just walked out onto Fifth Avenue and blended in with the crowd?" I asked. "Hailed a fucking cab after tearing everyone to pieces down here? — Nicholas Kaufmann

I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely. — Barbara Windsor

Hermione Granger, I'm being bossed around by Hermione Granger. — J.K. Rowling