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  • As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother. -- Prince William
  • I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels. -- Suzanne Farrell
  • I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids. -- Tyler Florence
  • Picture your grandmother in Hell, baking pies... without an oven. -- George Carlin
  • NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • You might be a redneck if your grandmother can correctly execute the sleeper hold. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. -- Albert Einstein
  • Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother. -- Steven Morrissey
  • You might be a redneck if your grandmother has ever been asked to leave a bingo game because of her language. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • I'd RKO my own grandmother if it meant keeping this title. Then I'd RKO your grandmother just to see the look on her face. -- Randy Orton
  • One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather! -- Groucho Marx
  • I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me. -- Maya Angelou
  • Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion. -- Roseanne Barr
  • Consider your second attention as a spiritual perceiver. Consider how you use it. You may plead innocence. You're not doing anything wrong. Don't feel that you've sinned. You have done what you had to do to survive, as did your mother, as did your grandmother. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be. -- William Monahan
  • If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink? -- John Berendt
  • In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like. -- Rian Johnson
  • Your grandmother used to say that you were two souls separated in heaven. She mainly meant you were both trouble and deserved each other. -- Kristen Ashley
  • Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets. -- Young Jeezy
  • My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged. -- Jimmy Wales
  • The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
  • You need to understand this. We did not think we owned the land. The land was part of us. We didn't even know about owning the land. It is like talking about owning your grandmother - you can't own your grandmother. She just is your grandmother. Why would you talk about owning her? -- Kent Nerburn
  • If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made. -- Zadie Smith
  • The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well ... But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother's windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long. -- Lamar Alexander
  • When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing. -- Malcolm X
  • The whole guilt thing of not feeling Mexican enough was a big deal, too. On the one hand, you have your grandmother who is anointing you as a chosen one because you are light, but then you feel like you're less because you are lighter than your cousins, who are more down on the streets. You know? So that confusion was all I wrote about. -- Matt de la Pena
  • If she wasn't your grandmother I'd shoot her." Ranger -- Janet Evanovich
  • No matter what you do, your grandmother thinks it's wonderful. -- Judith Ellen Levy
  • You, your grandmother, the chairman----YOU'RE ALL ABUNCH OF FRIGGIN' IDIOTS!!!" ~Haruhi -- Bisco Hatori
  • Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it. -- Bill Cosby
  • Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will. -- Philip Gulley
  • Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs. -- Hugh Laurie
  • Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. -- Andrei Codrescu
  • There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though.... This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently. -- Arvind Ethan David
  • If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out. -- George Brett
  • It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball. -- Tommy Lasorda
  • If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake. -- Daniel Handler
  • He looked as if he'd got a lot of pleasure out of going ten rounds with your grandmother and making sure she went the whole distance. -- Richard Brautigan
  • You're going to be my grandmother." "You silly child. In my heart, I've been your grandmother for years. I've just been waiting for you to make it official. -- Julia Quinn
  • Wear a towel instead of a coat, it's very chic. Or your husband's boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It's all about do-it-yourself at the moment. -- Vivienne Westwood
  • Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother? -- Steven Morrissey
  • You're dropping the bow hand as you release," he called, although Halt certainly wasn't. His mentor looked around, saw him, and replied pithily, "I believe your grandmother needs lessons in sucking eggs. -- John Flanagan
  • In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it. -- Bill Cosby
  • She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is that you should never tell them how to find your grandmother's house. -- Anne Ursu
  • Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Consider your second attention as a spiritual perceiver. Consider how you use it. You may plead innocence. You're not doing anything wrong. Don't feel that you've sinned. You have done what you had to do to survive, as did your mother, as did your grandmother. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. -- George Brett
  • There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older. -- Laura Carmichael
  • Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren. -- Carine Roitfeld
  • My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.' -- Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive. -- Wayne Wonder
  • It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases. -- Hilary Mantel
  • I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
  • I'm not drunk onstage, although I've done that a couple of times when I was younger. It's partly just the way I talk - I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I'm your 150-year-old grandmother. -- Dylan Moran
  • One of the great tragedies I see is people not putting every effort into the foundation of their marriage. My grandmother told me that it's one man and one woman for life and that your marriage is worth fighting for. -- Kay Robertson
  • I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one. -- Joanna Lumley
  • We've got so many different cultural groups in my family that I've had to learn to accommodate them in different ways. My father speaks different to my mum. My mum speaks different to my grandmother. Everybody speaks different, so you find you start tweaking your language to be more accessible to people. -- Trevor Noah
  • I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child. -- Joanne Harris
  • I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have in our heads, the voices that we have that say you better not tell that and don't tell that, and people will think you're not a good girl, and your grandmother's going to be mad at you and all of those things. -- Pearl Cleage
  • The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother. -- Linda Joyce
  • Use your internal grandmother for guidance and advice. -- Sark
  • Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. -- Michael Pollan
  • You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night. -- Sergei Parajanov
  • 'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren. -- Carine Roitfeld
  • As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try. -- Mary Margaret McBride
  • "Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren. -- Carine Roitfeld
  • Don't like when sports interviewers force answers: Are you dedicating this game to your sick grandmother? What's the guy supposed to say? -- Brian Regan
  • I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion. -- Neal Shusterman
  • Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce. -- Michael Pollan
  • By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times. -- Bryan Sykes
  • Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you. -- Rose Leslie
  • People have asked me, what about your tattoos when you're ninety? Why would it bother me then? I would still want to get tattooed even when I'm a grandmother. -- Nicole Miller
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