Oma Quotes

“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

“But then Oma tells me of bread, of the six hundred kinds made throughout her homeland, white and gray and black in color. Loaves heavy with pumpkin seeds. Pumpernickel. Rye. All with long, dense names like 'Sonnenblumenkernbrot' and 'Roggenmischbrot'. Each word is music to her. She has never eaten a tinned bread bagged in plastic with a little twist tie, a pride she wears all over. 'It matters,' she tells me. 'Wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing.'
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.”
― Christa Parrish, Stones For Bread

“You don't need to explain. This is your house too-you can go where you want," I reply. I smile as best as I can. "Except my room, of course."
"Why, you'll stab me with a kitchen knife if I do?" she jokes as I set the knife down onto Oma March's bedside table.
"Maybe," I answer.”
― Jackson Pearce, Sisters Red

“It's good not to put your hand in the fire for anyone, not even for you.”
― Oma Stănescu, The Fire of Karma

“Meine Großmutter kann nichts, oder vor allem: will auch nichts wegschmeißen. Und vor allem keine Lebensmittel. Weil sie noch weiß, wie es ist, nichts zu haben.”
― Luisa Neubauer, Gegen die Ohnmacht: Meine Großmutter, die Politik und ich