When my grandmother met my now wife, who is from Alabama, my grandmother told her “well, we all have to be from somewhere”
As someone who’s family is from Alabama, I hard agree with your grandma. Where was she from? And can I steal her line?
“Better an empty house, than a bad tenant” after every loud fart.
“You don’t have to shovel rain.” - My grandfather when asked why he moved the family from Wisconsin to Oregon.
“How are you ever gonna keep a job if you can’t keep juice in a cup?!”
I was 9 years old
My grandmother used to say: if you expect your good deed to be reciprocated, you’re not actually doing a good deed.
She said it in dutch, so I hope it’s an decent translation.