Quotes about Grandmother

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. Votes: 4

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

A Grandmother is a safe haven. Votes: 3

The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother. Votes: 3

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand. Votes: 3

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family. Votes: 3

A great tribute, is expressing the great love for a Grandmother we share with our children. Votes: 3

'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren. Votes: 3

Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren. Votes: 3

My Grandmother wouldn't even speak the word Democrat if there were children in the room, she'd say Bastards instead. Votes: 3

"Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren. Votes: 3

Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded. Votes: 3

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats. Votes: 3

I always get whiplash when I have sex in the backseat. Boy, I sure wish Grandmother would learn how to drive. Votes: 3

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person... Votes: 3

I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward. Votes: 3

Grandmother's knee is a wonderful place to learn about the Bible, ghosts, and even Santa Claus, but a mighty poor place to learn about history. Votes: 3

My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.' Votes: 3

Hazel squinted. "How far?" "Just over the river and through the woods." Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?" Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway. Votes: 3

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge. Votes: 3

Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt. Votes: 3

My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking. Votes: 3

We have become a grandmother. Votes: 2

Never have children, only grandchildren. Votes: 2

Elephants and grandchildren never forget. Votes: 2

When a child is born, so are grandmothers. Votes: 2

I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother. Votes: 2

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt. Votes: 2

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. Votes: 2

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. Votes: 2

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. Votes: 2

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. Votes: 2

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything. Votes: 2

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. Votes: 2

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes. Votes: 2

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. Votes: 2

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping. Votes: 2

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. Votes: 2

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me. Votes: 2

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me. Votes: 2

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism. Votes: 2

My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago. Votes: 2

My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised. Votes: 2

I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times. Votes: 2

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. Votes: 2

Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it. Votes: 2

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.' Votes: 2

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it! Votes: 2

Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana. Votes: 2

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are. Votes: 2

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. Votes: 2

Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is. Votes: 2

I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. Votes: 2

One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant. Votes: 2

The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll go out and talk to people about what's happening to their families, and when I do that, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother. Votes: 2

If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be. Votes: 2

I don't think people should be fed mesclun salad and chicken breast. My grandmother would serve grits and oxtail stew at a formal dinner, and if you didn't like it, well then you ate more beans or you went home and ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Votes: 2

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. Votes: 2

My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person. Votes: 2

I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren. Votes: 2

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang. Votes: 2

My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad. Votes: 2

What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually. Votes: 2

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.' Votes: 2

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream. Votes: 2

My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan. Votes: 2

My great grandmother was Chinese . Votes: 0

My grandmother is a famous atlas. Votes: 0

My grandmother influenced me so deeply. Votes: 0

My grandmother made dying her life's work. Votes: 0

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism. Votes: 0

[My grandmother] is a typical white person. Votes: 0

It was the day my grandmother exploded. Votes: 0

Every house needs a grandmother in it. Votes: 0

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one. Votes: 0

I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't. Votes: 0

My mother and grandmother both had beautiful skin. Votes: 0

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things. Votes: 0

My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity. Votes: 0

Use your internal grandmother for guidance and advice. Votes: 0

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood. Votes: 0

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Votes: 0

If she wasn't your grandmother I'd shoot her." Ranger Votes: 0

Becoming a grandmother has felt like being a mother. Votes: 0

My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother. Votes: 0

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history. Votes: 0

Picture your grandmother in Hell, baking pies... without an oven. Votes: 0

My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall. Votes: 0

No matter what you do, your grandmother thinks it's wonderful. Votes: 0

My look is more grandmother’s leftovers than heroin chic. Votes: 0

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother. Votes: 0

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon. Votes: 0

I inherited my love of gold jewellery from my grandmother. Votes: 0

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that. Votes: 0

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most. Votes: 0

My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham. Votes: 0

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god. Votes: 0

You, your grandmother, the chairman----YOU'RE ALL ABUNCH OF FRIGGIN' IDIOTS!!!" ~Haruhi Votes: 0

I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress. Votes: 0

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. Votes: 0

For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother. Votes: 0

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother. Votes: 0

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother Votes: 0

Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother Votes: 0

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed. Votes: 0

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing. Votes: 0

I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking. Votes: 0

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother. Votes: 0

My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish. Votes: 0

[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother. Votes: 0

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University. Votes: 0

My grandmother always would say, "This, too, shall pass." It is always true. Votes: 0

We believed in our grandmother's cooking more fervently than we believed in God. Votes: 0

They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart. Votes: 0

My grandsons really love my apple cake, which is from my grandmother's recipe. Votes: 0

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party. Votes: 0

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. Votes: 0

Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn. Votes: 0

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user! Votes: 0

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons. Votes: 0

I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators. Votes: 0

My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.' Votes: 0

I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me. Votes: 0

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother. Votes: 0

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother. Votes: 0

Some day I want to play a grandmother. And a foxy one at that! Votes: 0

Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering. Votes: 0

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. Votes: 0

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on. Votes: 0

My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance. Votes: 0

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if your grandmother can correctly execute the sleeper hold. Votes: 0

I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?' Votes: 0

There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows. Votes: 0

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general. Votes: 0

Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature? Votes: 0

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film. Votes: 0

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother. Votes: 0

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. Votes: 0

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. Votes: 0

My mother, grandmother and I all have different styles, but we share the same taste. Votes: 0

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once. Votes: 0

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother. Votes: 0

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt. Votes: 0

Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it. Votes: 0

My mother, grandmother and I all have different styles, but we share the same taste. Votes: 0

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. Votes: 0

Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs. Votes: 0

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run. Votes: 0

There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though.... This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently. Votes: 0

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. Votes: 0

My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her. Votes: 0

I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother. Votes: 0

I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny. Votes: 0

As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical. Votes: 0

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood. Votes: 0

I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget. Votes: 0

My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too. Votes: 0

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over. Votes: 0

My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord. Votes: 0

Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will. Votes: 0

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things. Votes: 0

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide. Votes: 0

I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table. Votes: 0

My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning. Votes: 0

[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught. Votes: 0

Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother. Votes: 0

I believe in things I can count on, like beer and ESPN and my grandmother's pecan pie. Votes: 0

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door. Votes: 0

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education. Votes: 0

What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it. Votes: 0

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night. Votes: 0

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on. Votes: 0

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. Votes: 0

My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything. Votes: 0

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable. Votes: 0

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life. Votes: 0

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people. Votes: 0

There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older. Votes: 0

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally. Votes: 0

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out. Votes: 0

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money. Votes: 0

coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body. Votes: 0

The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me. Votes: 0

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots. Votes: 0

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full. Votes: 0

As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try. Votes: 0

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing. Votes: 0

My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.' Votes: 0

Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try." Votes: 0

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels. Votes: 0

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it. Votes: 0

As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me. Votes: 0

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe. Votes: 0

Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . . Votes: 0

A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.' Votes: 0

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. Votes: 0

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right. Votes: 0

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren. Votes: 0

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill. Votes: 0

I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother. Votes: 0

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience. Votes: 0

I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices. Votes: 0

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible. Votes: 0

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me. Votes: 0

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite. Votes: 0

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II. Votes: 0

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. Votes: 0

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother. Votes: 0

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. Votes: 0

My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well. Votes: 0

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house. Votes: 0

I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. Votes: 0

He's an American, qualified to play for Wales because he has a Welsh grandmother, who was on the bench against Switzerland. Votes: 0

My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don't know what I am, but I believe in God. Votes: 0

I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me. Votes: 0

I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do. Votes: 0

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s. Votes: 0

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if your grandmother has ever been asked to leave a bingo game because of her language. Votes: 0

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters. Votes: 0

Don't like when sports interviewers force answers: Are you dedicating this game to your sick grandmother? What's the guy supposed to say? Votes: 0

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side. Votes: 0

Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards. Votes: 0

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce. Votes: 0

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors. Votes: 0

I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion. Votes: 0

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy. Votes: 0

My grandmother said it very simply: "If you don't like dogs, you don't like humans, and vice versa." I really believe that. Votes: 0

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it. Votes: 0

My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours? Votes: 0

When my son will be born, my first goal will be for him. The rest, will be as always for my grandmother. Votes: 0

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible. Votes: 0

When I was a girl, my grandmother would take me during the holidays to see the windows at Saks and Rockefeller Center. Votes: 0

My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P. Votes: 0

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences. Votes: 0

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me. Votes: 0

Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died. Votes: 0

And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready. Votes: 0

I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter. Votes: 0

The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man. Votes: 0

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself. Votes: 0

Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of style. Votes: 0

My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write. Votes: 0

My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out. Votes: 0

We actually have a small family. It's just my father and I and my grandmother, who lives in Tokyo. I cherish my friendships. Votes: 0

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well. Votes: 0

A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren. Votes: 0

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer. Votes: 0

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like. Votes: 0

Your grandmother used to say that you were two souls separated in heaven. She mainly meant you were both trouble and deserved each other. Votes: 0

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward. Votes: 0

I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect. Votes: 0

I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian. Votes: 0

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them Votes: 0

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather. Votes: 0

My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young. Votes: 0

In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth. Votes: 0

My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs. Votes: 0

My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint. Votes: 0

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. Votes: 0

One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather! Votes: 0

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right. Votes: 0

I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch. Votes: 0

When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden. Votes: 0

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. Thats my aspiration. Votes: 0

Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head. Votes: 0

Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger. Votes: 0

I think that, on television and in film, I will continue to be the mother to hot boys until, inevitably, I am their grandmother. Votes: 0

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration. Votes: 0

When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting. Votes: 0

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost. Votes: 0

I'd RKO my own grandmother if it meant keeping this title. Then I'd RKO your grandmother just to see the look on her face. Votes: 0

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that. Votes: 0

My grandmother knew J.F.K. and L.B.J. That was her world. I enjoy meeting interesting people. But that's not my world. Votes: 0

My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a democrat in the family. Votes: 0

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages Votes: 0

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available. Votes: 0

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste. Votes: 0

A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged. Votes: 0

My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me. Votes: 0

My grandmother taught me, you believe in a politician, you get out there and work for them. So, that`s what I`ve been doing. Votes: 0

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong. Votes: 0

Everyone in my family has some kind of artistic tendency. My great grandmother was a jewelry designer, and her daughter was a ceramic tile muralist. Votes: 0

I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome. Votes: 0

Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism . My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard ! Votes: 0

Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane) It's amazing the lies we tell other people, isn't it? (Sunshine's grandmother) Votes: 0

It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball. Votes: 0

Being a grandmother is probably the most important thing to me. I have two really rambunctious little ones, and I love spending time with them. Votes: 0

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake. Votes: 0

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant. Votes: 0

Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way. Votes: 0

Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots! Votes: 0

My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do. Votes: 0

My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast. Votes: 0

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else. Votes: 0

Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just ask the question. Votes: 0

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever. Votes: 0

My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat. Votes: 0

I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and praying over me. Votes: 0

I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me. Votes: 0

I want to reach everybody, from the little girls who are 3 years old, to the grandmother who watches my soap, to a young man in love. Votes: 0

My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs. Votes: 0

He looked as if he'd got a lot of pleasure out of going ten rounds with your grandmother and making sure she went the whole distance. Votes: 0

On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since. Votes: 0

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer. Votes: 0

My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold. Votes: 0

I hated my mom for not letting me play football as a kid. So when I have kids someday, I guarantee they'll never meet their grandmother. Votes: 0

They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very subdued way. Votes: 0

One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob ... Votes: 0

My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes. Votes: 0

I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother. Votes: 0

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times. Votes: 0

Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now. Votes: 0

In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers. Votes: 0

My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible. Votes: 0

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify. Votes: 0

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.' Votes: 0

There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me. Votes: 0

My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini. Votes: 0

I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes. Votes: 0

I've always liked long, flowing clothes,...I used to rummage around in my grandmother's trunks trying to find them. I love the feeling of chiffon and lace. Votes: 0

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer. Votes: 0

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic. Votes: 0

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas. Votes: 0

I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories. Votes: 0

I work for wardrobe. Whenever I need clothes, I take a job. If I get maybe like six changes, then I'll be a grandmother, I don't care. Votes: 0

Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful. Votes: 0

I'm a grandmother and like every grandmother, I worry about the safety and security of my grandchildren, but my worries are not the same as black grandmothers. Votes: 0

Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother. Votes: 0

Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood Votes: 0

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us. Votes: 0

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer. Votes: 0

I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with her has no imagination. Votes: 0

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.' Votes: 0

Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you. Votes: 0

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city. Votes: 0

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive. Votes: 0

One day at my grandmother's house, I discovered 'The Secret Garden' and read it. This was the first book I found entirely for myself, and I cherished it. Votes: 0

My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis. Votes: 0

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey. Votes: 0

My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind... like Robert Plant. Votes: 0

I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric. Votes: 0

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old. Votes: 0

My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co. Votes: 0

I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time. Votes: 0

Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales. Votes: 0

My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co. Votes: 0

My mother and my grandmother would make an apple tart in different styles, and I had one per day. Every day I would eat one full apple tart. Votes: 0

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all. Votes: 0

I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn't be so inclined to jump up and strangle my grandmother. Votes: 0

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way? Votes: 0

My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be. Votes: 0

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas. Votes: 0

People have asked me, what about your tattoos when you're ninety? Why would it bother me then? I would still want to get tattooed even when I'm a grandmother. Votes: 0

I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook. Votes: 0

My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course. Votes: 0

My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose. Votes: 0

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me. Votes: 0

My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears. Votes: 0

My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandfather worked as a clerk for the Swedish railways in the Stockholm station. Votes: 0

My family was into music. My dad was into music down south. My mom and grandmother were into gospel music so there were all types. That was my inspiration. Votes: 0

You're going to be my grandmother." "You silly child. In my heart, I've been your grandmother for years. I've just been waiting for you to make it official. Votes: 0

You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day. Votes: 0

I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave. Votes: 0

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother. Votes: 0

My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control. Votes: 0

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died. Votes: 0

My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed - even later on, when I was well known and I supported her. Votes: 0

My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a 'lively imagination.' She told us that she was a direct descendant of Sir Christopher Wren. Votes: 0

My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push church or God on her children. Votes: 0

Wear a towel instead of a coat, it's very chic. Or your husband's boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It's all about do-it-yourself at the moment. Votes: 0

Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap. Votes: 0

My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker. Votes: 0

Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being. Votes: 0

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis. Votes: 0

Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all. Votes: 0

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value. Votes: 0

Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops. Votes: 0

If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her. Votes: 0

My grandmother, whom we call Biel, thinks it's very unbecoming of me not to smile for the paparazzi. So every time I see them, I think, 'Smile for Biel!' Votes: 0

When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people lived there and experience my own culture was wonderful. Votes: 0

I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well. Votes: 0

Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these Votes: 0

Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself. Votes: 0

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women! Votes: 0

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be. Votes: 0

My grandmother used to say before you moan about the muck on someone else's glasses make sure you're not on about the muck on your own her glasses were filthy Votes: 0

My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week. Votes: 0

If you only knew, for instance, how much I enjoy being a grandmother! Do you know I'm twice a grandmother? Rajiv and Sonia have had a boy and a girl. Votes: 0

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want. Votes: 0

[My grandmother] managed her money better than some financial professionals I know. I give credit always to her because she is the reason I have my column and national recognition. Votes: 0

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee. Votes: 0

I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter. Votes: 0

I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life - I'd be lost without it. Votes: 0

We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart. Votes: 0

I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear. Votes: 0

The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king. Votes: 0

Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother? Votes: 0

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases. Votes: 0

I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms. Votes: 0

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. Votes: 0

My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before 1915: 'not so nice.' That's all I heard. Votes: 0

Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done. Votes: 0

I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the beds and taught us how to find four-leaf clovers. Votes: 0

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts. Votes: 0

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase. Votes: 0

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did. Votes: 0

Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion. Votes: 0

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet. Votes: 0

I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of the presence of a greater being I call God. Votes: 0

My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem. Votes: 0

My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights. Votes: 0

A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream. Votes: 0

One only has an adventure when one makes a mistake, but [as] my grandmother used to say: "You don't have to get out of trouble if you don't get into trouble." Votes: 0

I got into the situation where I was extreme right. It turned out that my mother is Jewish, my grandmother is Jewish. I am Jewish. So I can't hate Jewish people. Votes: 0

Through my grandmother's eyes, I can see more clearly the way things used to be, the way things ought to be, and most important of all, the way things really are. Votes: 0

Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas. Votes: 0

When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad. Votes: 0

You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear. Votes: 0

My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold with her. They don't make them like that any more. Votes: 0

There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher. Votes: 0

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood. Votes: 0

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful. Votes: 0

Take a few minutes.""No. He's already had more of my time than he was entitled to."Yes, he thought as she walked out of his office. Very much like her grandmother. Votes: 0

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career. Votes: 0

My grandmother raised me for a good portion of my life. She moved to Los Angeles with me to be an actor, so I've always had a connection with an older generation. Votes: 0

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic. Votes: 0

I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful. Votes: 0

My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know... You break it, you buy it. Votes: 0

Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. Votes: 0

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity. Votes: 0

People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile. Votes: 0

Sometimes, when you walk by the home of the girl you love, you can see her standing by the window... She waves at you, and you wave back... But it's her grandmother... Votes: 0

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother. Votes: 0

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word. Votes: 0

The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white. Votes: 0

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases. Votes: 0

I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids. Votes: 0

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy. Votes: 0

I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful. Votes: 0

My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome. Votes: 0

I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods. Votes: 0

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood Votes: 0

I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses from my grandmother to artists like David Bowie and Boy George. Votes: 0

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that. Votes: 0

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food. Votes: 0

My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments. Votes: 0

My grandmother was the type of woman who always smiled and said, 'Treat people like you want to be treated, and life is so much easier.' My mom is the same way. Votes: 0

It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused. Votes: 0

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. Votes: 0

When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet. Votes: 0

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me. Votes: 0

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother. Votes: 0

I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio. Votes: 0

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. Votes: 0

I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it. Votes: 0

Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours. Votes: 0

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated. Votes: 0

[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the "lost children" who feature in the novel - those come from my research. Votes: 0

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932! Votes: 0

I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe. Votes: 0

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. Votes: 0

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded. Votes: 0

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same. Votes: 0

I love being around my family. I am very close to my mum, my brother, my grandmother, my aunts - we constantly poke fun at each other, but it's all done out of love. Votes: 0

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. Votes: 0

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16. Votes: 0

My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it. Votes: 0

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother! Votes: 0

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied. Votes: 0

Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice. Votes: 0

When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets. Votes: 0

I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that. Votes: 0

Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix. Votes: 0

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle. Votes: 0

My grandmother used to say, "Sometimes the loudest person in the room doesn't know what they're talking about." Or isn't secure enough in his or her own views to be able to listen to others. Votes: 0

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting. Votes: 0

There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends. Votes: 0

My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the kitchen always had pots cooking with the lids were always bump, bump, bump, bump, bubbling, you know? Votes: 0

I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in. Votes: 0

My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school. Votes: 0