Importance Of Grandmothers Quotes

Cookery means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe and of Helen and of the Queen of Sheba. It means the knowledge of all herbs and fruits and balms and spices, and all that is healing and sweet in the fields and groves and savory in meats. It means carefulness and inventiveness and willingness and readiness of appliances. It means the economy of your grandmothers and the science of the modern chemist; it means much testing and no wasting; it means English thoroughness and French art and Arabian hospitality; and, in fine, it means that you are to be perfectly and always ladies - loaf givers. ~ John Ruskin

... a snuggery of grandmothers. ~ Bryn Hammond

What's the harm in forgetting? What does remembering do? Kugel had read that the war in the Balkans was referred to as the War of the Grandmothers; that after 50 years of peace, it was the grandmothers who reminded their offspring to hate each other, the grandmothers who reminded them of past atrocities, of indignities long gone. Never forget! shouted the grandmothers. So their grandchildren remembered, and their grandchildren died. ~ Shalom Auslander

If god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers. ~ Linda Henley

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It's a law or something. ~ Mary E. Pearson

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood. ~ Alice Walker

I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch over younger women, children, community and also, why not? this mistreated planet, the victim of such unrelenting desecration. ~ Isabel Allende

Grandmothers are the best female superheroes and I don't know why they don't have their own special day and month of the year to celebrate. ~ Euginia Herlihy

He looked up at the gathered Grandmothers, and She Who Had Been Hasha saw the truth in her grandson's face. He would fight Grandmothers or gods or humans to protect his Liam. This was the way it should be. ~ Lyn Gala

A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac. ~ Laura Miller

Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail. ~ Lois Wyse

There are some old machines like antique sewing machine or pasta machine; seeing them is seeing our great grandmothers, touching them is touching our grandmothers! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven. ~ Rick Bragg

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen. ~ Kerry Washington

You are saddened by love's importance in the emir's life?"
He paused. "I am frustrated by its importance in all our lives. ~ Renee Ahdieh

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards. ~ Wilford Woodruff

Never confuse the importance of things with things of importance. ~ Mardy Grothe

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources. ~ Michael Rostovtzeff

Irony of "importance": Those who deserve, don't get it; Those who don't, get it in abundance by you. ~ Shivam Singh

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong. ~ Margaret Walker

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. ~ Alice Walker

While a sane world would not employ 5-foot-tall grandmothers as law enforcement officers, a sane world would also not give full body-cavity searches to 5-foot-tall grandmothers at airports. ~ Ann Coulter

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish ~ Malcolm Gladwell

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts ~ Jane Austen

Importance of life is that you dont forget its Importance! ~ Nandini Deka

No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works. ~ Mary Somerville

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center. ~ Anna Camp

Ah, Kurosaki, I see you've finally realized the importance of a cape.
~Uryu Ishida ~ Tite Kubo

A good beginning is of great importance. ~ Catherine McAuley

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character. ~ G.K. Chesterton

No human thing is of serious importance. ~ Plato

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society. ~ Lester Bowie

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived. 'I go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand,' Maya Angelou proclaimed in her poem 'Our Grandmothers.' When I move through the world, I bring all my history with me-all the people who paved the way for me are part of who I am. ~ Oprah Winfrey

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. ~ Horace

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships. ~ Daniel Goleman

Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it. ~ Arthur Helps

Remember: things only have the meaning and importance you give them. ~ Marty Rubin

We are important to ourselves and to those who love us. That's enough importance for anyone. ~ Marty Rubin

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

I'm very, very lucky in that I have a partner who is willing to do it with me in a really collaborative way. Fortunately, even though we couldn't stay in a romantic relationship, our values are very much around the importance of family and the importance of those relationships. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance. ~ William Shenstone

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability. ~ Jerry Pournelle

People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting. ~ Tab Hunter

He also knows the importance of intuition. ~ Paulo Coelho

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance. ~ J. Donald Walters

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. ~ Aldous Huxley

No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think? ~ Elbert Hubbard

Sometimes when we lose something of importance what we have left becomes even more precious. ~ Victoria Alexander

We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power. ~ Maria Cantwell

People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image ~ Colin Fletcher

One must understand the importance of an endless drive to get information and seek value. ~ Seth Klarman

I made a list of unimportant things: I put importance at the top. ~ Marty Rubin

When you think about something you give it an importance it doesn't have. ~ Marty Rubin

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day. ~ Jeffrey Bernard

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade. ~ Terry Branstad

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential. ~ Winston Churchill

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything. ~ Tom Stoppard

Teaching is of more importance than urging. ~ Martin Luther

You must purge yourself of all thoughts of self-importance, and all inclination to judge either yourself or others. You must go to power with humility and deep respect. ~ Mike Livingston

If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end. ~ Sara Jeannette Duncan

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands. ~ Charles De Gaulle

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time. ~ Bill Gates

Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important. ~ George Ade

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance. ~ John Entwistle

The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable! ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well. ~ Kevin Gates

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music. ~ James Taylor

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance. ~ David Garrick

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. ~ William Barclay

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. ~ Dan Quayle

Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it's a negative importance, it's the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don't count. I feel singled out, but also bereft. ~ Margaret Atwood

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese. ~ Billie Burke

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap. ~ Ira Glass

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child. ~ Dan Quayle

We must acknowledge the importance of teachers to the society. ~ Narendra Modi

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

There's no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu

If something makes you wealthier,
it is of considerable importance.
If something makes you happier,
it is of substantial importance.
If something makes you better,
it is of monumental importance.
If something makes you wiser,
it is of astronomical importance. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance. ~ James Cook

I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer. ~ DeAngelo Williams

We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric. ~ Jerry Rubin

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimize the importance of the individual and maximize the importance of the group. ~ Mohsin Hamid

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it. ~ Rufus Wainwright

The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images. ~ Frederick Lenz

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray ~ John Piper

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. ~ Eckhart Tolle

I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say. ~ Wendelin Van Draanen

Cleanliness & good sanitation in schools is a matter of high importance. ~ Narendra Modi

How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance. ~ Astra Taylor

Learn about intentions, for their importance is greater than the importance of the actions ~ Yahya Ibn Abu Kathir

Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does. ~ Stephen Kinzer

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.
Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words. ~ Eric Ripert