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Letter "G" » grandmother
«There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.»
Author: Alvin Dark
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
beguile, beguiled, beguiles, beguiling, eighty-three, eighty, grandmother, included, partly, puberty, surprisingly
«My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.»
Author: Ellen DeGeneres
(Actress, Comedian)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
Five Days, grandmother, grandmothers, miles, ninety-seven, ninety, seven, sixty, started
«My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once»
Author: Richard Lewis
(Actor, Comedian, Writer)
| Keywords:
grandmother, grandmothers, Jewish, juggler, jugglers
«My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.»
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Composer)
| Keywords:
eloquently, grandfather, grandmother, great grandfather, great grandmother, Great One, in turn, Mothers And Daughters, repeated
«The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.»
Author: Betty Friedan
| Keywords:
appliance, appliances, feminine, freed, grandmother, housewife, illnesses, suburban
«Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.»
Author: Dan Rather
| Keywords:
accurate, big game, big toe, grandmother, predicting, reliable, researcher, researchers, samples, toe
«My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.»
Author: Rita Rudner
(Comedian, Writer)
| Keywords:
buried, grandmother, grandmothers, husbands, napping, Naps
«NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appointing, grandmother, nepotism, The Party
«There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| Keywords:
grandmother
«Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction.»
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