grandmother quotes

   I think my grandmother actually smelled like a cookie and that's enough to get any child's attention.

- F(rancis) Lee Bailey
Quoted by Phyllis Hanes in Christian Science Monitor,15  Jun 1988.

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

- Iain Menzies Banks
 The Crow Road, ch.1, opening words.

A Man may not marry his Grandmother.

-Book of Common Prayer
Table of Kindred and  Affinity.

   In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.

- Maria Edgeworth
  Count O'Halloran's advice to Lord Colambare. The Absentee, ch.15.

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.

- Hugh Grant
  On his role in Restoration. In Screen International, 2 Sep.

We have become a grandmother.

- Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness Thatcher
  TheTimes, 4 Mar.