Grandma Quotes
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Get in the fast lane, Grandma, the bingo game's ready to roll!
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More Grandma Quotes
There emanates from her paintings a light-hearted optimism; the world she shows us is beautiful and it is good. You feel at home in all these pictures, and you know their meaning. The unrest and the neurotic insecurity of the present day make us inclined to enjoy the simple and affirmative outlook of grandma Moses.
grandma moses— Unnamed German critic, as quoted in her obituary in The New York Times (14 December 1961)
In person, grandma Moses charmed wherever she went. A tiny, lively woman with mischievous gray eyes and a quick wit, she could be sharp-tongued with a sycophant and stern with an errant grandchild.
grandma moses— Unnamed author of her obituary in The New York Times (14 December 1961)
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
— "The Old and the New," The New Yorker (1937-06-19)
What the flip was grandma doing at the sand dunes?
Napoleon— Jon Heder, Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
The sponsor may be viewed as a potentate with a strong influence over currents of thought in our society, exercised mainly through television [...] It has tended to displace or overwhelm other influences such as newspapers, school, church, grandpa, grandma. It has become the definer and transmitter of society's values.
— Erik Barnouw, The Sponsor: Notes On a Modern Potentate (Oxford University Press, 1978), page 74-75, ISBN 0-19-502614-4
Living with grandma had taught Elizabeth the basic rules. At grandma’s she had learned that you were either a giver or a taker, predator or prey. And Cassidy Shaw had all the hallmarks of prey
lis wiehl— p. 41 (Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson))
