Granny Quotes

“I still loved Granny. It flowed out of my chest. With Granny gone, where would my love go?”
― Jessica Maria Tuccelli, Glow

“Because improbable tragedies create improbable superheroes.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Because when you love someone very much, it's difficult to learn to share her with someone else.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“It's possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Granny always said finding justice was as tough as putting socks on a rooster.”
― Jessica Maria Tuccelli, Glow

“But--" she tried not to wail, but her voice crept upward, anyway "--I want to go HOME--"
"And I want a palace and a handsome, young prince who has an unnatural lust for old women, and neither of us are going to get what we crave, so let's concentrate on what we can do something about!" Granny said sharply.”
― Mercedes Lackey , Beauty and the Werewolf

“You should choose your battles if you can, but if the battle chooses you then kick the sod in his fuse box!”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“When Granny was headed for some far-off place, you could only be sure of one thing: that it was a place everyone else was trying to get away from. And if anyone asked her why she was doing it, she'd answer, "I'm a doctor, for God's sake, and ever since I became one I've not allowed myself the luxury of choosing whose life I should be saving.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Mo Sheanmháthair

Ar ais arís lá breá Lúnasa
Canach geosadáin ar foluain
Ar chuile leoithne ghaoithe
Do theach ina sceatraigh
Na cróite ina snaois,
Airím arís ceol na mblianta dearmadta,
Drumadóireacht an bhanna práis
Ag máirseáil síos an bóthar,
Tusa led' sciortaí ardaithe
Ag damhsa ar an screabán
Do sheachtar óg
Náire shaolta fút
Ina bhfál ceilte os do chomhair
Le nach bhfeicfeadh na comharsain
Meidhréis do dhamhsa.”
― Deirdre Brennan, INNTI: Uimhir a ceathair déag

“I was clenching the steering wheel like a granny, but driving like I was trying out for NASCAR.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“There is no other love that’s as special as the love of a grandma.
So warm and fuzzy, so calm and sweet, so cheerful and joyful.
Grandmas are definitely a special gift from God.
A treasure you must always keep.
Memories that are never fading but always alive and well in our minds.
Forever in my heart, Grandma…”
― Hopal Green

“Will you guys by okay?" I asked granny and BFF.

"Oh, hell yeah. We're gonna play Twister and then try on wigs and girdles," Granny informed us.”
― Robyn Peterman, Ready to Were

“The monsoons had cooled down the temperature and a thick blanket, folded into a perfect rectangle, lay at the foot of my bed. Grandma must have come to inspect the settings a hundred times, being a perfectionist. Her love was evident in every little thing that was present in the house. It was soothing to be back in the house. Something unwounded from within, the moment I entered it.”
― Preethi Venugopala

“She's like a letter from the tax authorities, that old biddy," Granny used to say.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Granny always made Polly think of biscuits. She had a dry, shortbread sort of way to her, with a hidden taste that came out afterwards. Her kitchen had a biscuit smell to it, a nutty, butter smell like no other kitchen. (p. 9)”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

“In Appalachia, everyone has a fierce granny story.”
― Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

“Blessed is that family where there are old people, says an ancient proverb, and happy the children who heed the counsel of the old, for it's as if they had already enjoyed a long life. Love your grandparents, children, for they love you as the sons and daughters of their sons and daughters, and hence with a double tenderness. If you see they love your company, don't leave them alone, and when it's their birthday, never forget to with them many happy returns, 'A hundred more happy returns, Granny and Granddad!”
― Tim Parks, An Italian Education

“Granny flats are misnamed. They were once intended for older relatives, so they can live near their adult children and grandchildren. Hence the appellation. Down in the lowlands of Boomertown, there are many such little residences. But they’re not for grannies.

Instead, the buildings should be called ‘children and grandchildren emergency shelters’ because that’s what they’ve become. Whole families cram themselves into a few dozen square metres of space and meanwhile, the grandparents stay in the big main house, rattling around their many empty rooms like rubber balls in a vast squash court.”
― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“Daughter follows mother in actions and habits and some times also follows her granny.”
― Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri

“As me old granny used to say before they carried her home to glory, there's three parts to a good sermon. First The Hook, then lay on The Guilt, then you deliver The Sting. I'll be sending the collection plate round shortly.”
― Andre the BFG, Andre's Adventures in MySpace

“Life's not always a bed of noses. "We've been put on this earth to do good, and as long as you can put you hand on yer heart and say you've done yer best you can gan to yer rest with an easy conscience," was what me granny used to say. Before they dragged her off to the funny farm dressed as a Christmas turkey (it were the stuffing that gave the game away).”
― Andre the BFG, Andre's Adventures in MySpace

“Granny Eve had kindly not told the nurse that the UFO in question was a tiddlywink.”
― Cassie Beasley, Tumble & Blue

“Liam said the whole thing's ridiculous and he's probably right. It probably does look ridiculous from a distance. But from the right in the middle, it feels as lonely as I can possibly imagine.”
― Sophia Bennett, Sequins, Stars and Spotlights