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Grandma Kranky Quotes
Eight of the best book quotes from Grandma Kranky
01
“From now on, you must eat cabbage three times a day. Mountains of cabbage! And if it’s got caterpillars in it, so much the better!”
Roald Dahl
author
George's Marvelous Medicine
book
Grandma Kranky
character
caterpillars
ᐧ
cabbages
ᐧ
eating
concepts
02
″‘Does chocolate make you grow?’ ‘It makes you grow the wrong way,’ she snapped. ‘Up instead of down.‘”
Roald Dahl
author
George's Marvelous Medicine
book
Grandma Kranky
ᐧ
George Kranky
characters
chocolate
ᐧ
wrong way
ᐧ
growing
ᐧ
down
concepts
03
“But we have to grow, Grandma. If we didn’t grow, we’d never be grown-ups.”
Roald Dahl
author
George's Marvelous Medicine
book
Grandma Kranky
ᐧ
George Kranky
characters
growing
ᐧ
grown ups
ᐧ
grow up
concepts
04
″‘Never grow up,’ she said, ‘always down.‘”
Roald Dahl
author
George's Marvelous Medicine
book
Grandma Kranky
character
growing up
ᐧ
down
ᐧ
advice
concepts
05
“I gave up growing when I was extremely small, along with all the other nasty childish habits like laziness and disobedience and greed and sloppiness and untidiness and stupidity.”
Roald Dahl
author
George's Marvelous Medicine
book
Grandma Kranky
character
habits
ᐧ
giving up
ᐧ
greed
ᐧ
stupidity
ᐧ
Disobedience
ᐧ
childish
ᐧ
sloppy
ᐧ
untidy
concepts
06
“A big fat earwig is very tasty.”
Roald Dahl
author
George's Marvelous Medicine
book
Grandma Kranky
character
tasty things
ᐧ
fat
ᐧ
earwigs
concepts
07
“Could it be, George wondered, that she was a witch? He had always thought witches were only in fairy tales, but now he was not so sure.”
Roald Dahl
author
George's Marvelous Medicine
book
Grandma Kranky
ᐧ
George Kranky
characters
witches
ᐧ
fairy tales
ᐧ
wondering
concepts
08
“Most grandmothers are lovely, kind, helpful old ladies, but not this one.”
Roald Dahl
author
George's Marvelous Medicine
book
Grandma Kranky
character
grandmothers
ᐧ
lovely
ᐧ
rudeness
ᐧ
kind
concepts
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wrong way
growing
down
grown ups
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growing up
advice
habits
giving up
greed
stupidity
Disobedience
childish
sloppy
untidy
tasty things
fat
earwigs
witches
fairy tales
wondering
grandmothers
lovely
rudeness
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