37 Quotes About Grandmothers

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

I still loved Granny. It flowed out of my chest. With Granny gone, where would my love go?

The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations.

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.

And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.

I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn't understand, and I remember big red soft hands and that smell. I never knew who she really was. I mean, she must have been nine too, once.

What she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us. And that, on this planet, Grandmother Earth, there is no higher authority. That our inseparability is why the planet will be steered to safety by Grandmother/Grandmothers or it will not be steered to safety at all.

if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.