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“My grandmother spoiled my father rotten and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.”

“My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.”

Hands Minutes Essentials Garden Standing Grandmother Gardening Fifteen My Grandmother

Author:Gary Snyder

Source: No nature: new and selected poems

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”

Humor Age Family Walking Exercise Grandparents Grandmothers

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“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.”

“My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on Earth. I wish I could say that in that moment in the kitchen she decided to quit drinking, but I now saw that drinking was a part of what made her who she was. If the worst of what she left on Earth was a legacy of inebriated support, it was a good legacy in my book. ~Susie's grandmother, Lynn pgs 315-316”

Ifs Made Book Moments Earth Left Wish Support Saws Worst Drink Decided Drinking Quitting Legacy Kitchen Grandmother That Moment My Grandmother After Death Quit Drinking

Author:Alice Sebold

“My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.”

People Asks Left Stuff Behinds Talking Comedy Changed Taught Impact Accomplishment Grandmother Airplane My Grandmother Left Behind Speak The Truth Peanuts Cleaners Generic

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.”

Mind Childhood Taught Return Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Elena Roger

“My grandmother taught me two very important lessons before she passed: hold the door for everyone and always say "thank you." That means to treat everyone the same, no matter if it is the President or a homeless mother begging for food. And never forget to thank those who have helped you, whether it is the person serving you food at a restaurant or your third-grade teacher who taught you the multiplication tables.”

“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.”

Believe Taught Politician Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Killer Mike

“My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be inside: e.e. cummings, flower petals, a handful of buttons. She seems to have lost sight of the original purpose of the brown bag." - Lennie "Or maybe she thinks other forms of nourishment are more important." - Joe”

Thinking Knows Important Seems Form Purpose Lost Flower Sight Originals Brown Bags Grandmother Lunch Buttons My Grandmother Handful Nourishment Petals Lennie

Author:Jandy Nelson

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.”

Thinking Knows Way Faces Taught Racism Grandmother Racist My Grandmother Neurotic Taught Us Michigan Psychotic

Author:James Earl Jones

“My grandmother told a story that when they used to leave from Southampton to go into the City, because he had apartment buildings in Queens - I was born in Astoria, Queens - they had apartment buildings in Queens and Manhattan, different businesses, and she wanted to pick blueberries on the side of the road and he wouldn't stop, so my grandma used to throw her purse out the window. She never had less than $4,000 cash, back in the 20s, and he would then stop the car and she would pick blueberries. And, he never had a record.”

Different Stories Wanted Used Sides Born Cities Records Car Building Picks Window Queens Grandmother Cash Apartment My Grandmother Grandma Purses Manhattan My Grandma Blueberries Southampton

Author:Robert Davi

“My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.”

“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.”

World Years Humans Stills Helping Human Beings Years Ago Good Things Very Good Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Maya Angelou

“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.”

Together Used Order Courses Asks Father Break Bread Grandmother My Grandmother Riddle

Author:Jodi Picoult

Source: The Storyteller

“My grandmother told me that to be in fashion, one must be young and passionate about the work. At this moment, every aspect of my life is permeated by fashion - everything has a reference to my job.”

Moments Fashion Passionate Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Margherita Missoni

“My grandmother told me: "We all dated lots of different boys because no one was having sex or kissing. It was just going out for sodas and getting to know people. It didn't seem like there was a threat." I think now we have more ideas of people having premarital and unprotected sex.”

People Thinking Knows Ideas Different Seems Sex Boys Kissing Threat Grandmother Going Out My Grandmother Having Sex Soda

Author:Zoe Kazan

“My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.”

Mean Stills Conscious Debt Grandmother My Grandmother Extravagant Costco

Author:Jill Scott

“My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.”

Stories Very Good Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Cornelia Funke

“My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood.”

Way Wells Bits Rich Childhood Lucky Performances Theater Grandmother Exposed My Grandmother Broadway

Author:Julia Stiles

“My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'”

People Needs Used Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Will Smith

“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.”

Play School Used Taste Grandmother My Grandmother Grandma Old School Good Taste

Author:Virgil Green

“My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.”

Way Stills Used Mother Father Parent Sitting Down And Eight Dinner Cooks Grandmother Lunch My Grandmother Sitting Down

Author:Carrie Ann Inaba

“My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.”

Mean Used Discipline Beats Ass Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Richard Pryor

“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.”

Bigs School Used Picks Hats Grandmother My Grandmother Fuzzy Pick Me Pick Me Up

Author:Adam Sandler

“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”

Used Glasses Grandmother My Grandmother Filthy

Author:John Hegley

“My grandmother used to say, "Don't frown, Ania, laughter is so much better for the world. Give your family and friends that gift always.”

Thriller Suspense Paranormal Romance Shifters Leopard Series

Author:Christine Feehan

Source: Leopard's Wrath

“My grandmother used to say that mint could heat up a man's blood. She told me that it was used in love potions in the olden times and soldiers weren't allowed to eat it lest they run amuck with lust. I remember her expounding on this subject over the Sunday roast and the cautionary look that she gave my grandfather as he reached for another spoonful of mint sauce.”

Mint Aphrodisiac For Men

Author:Caroline Scott

Source: Good Taste

“My grandmother used to say that there's something truly intimate about sharing food with the people you love." [Stacey] "Intimate? Sharing food? People you love?" Amber raises an eyebrow. "Um, no offense, Stace, but it sounds like Gram was into food kink.”

People Used Sound Raises Intimate Grandmother Offense My Grandmother Eyebrows Amber Kink Sharing Food Stacey

Author:Laurie Faria Stolarz

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

Used Path Crosses Grandmother My Grandmother Twisted

Author:Neal Shusterman

Source: Downsiders

“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.”

Knows Persons Sometimes Enough Able Used Rooms Views Talking Secure Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Jessica Chastain

“My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.”

Grandmother Smallest My Grandmother

Author:Koichi Tanaka

“My grandmother, Vivian, and her siblings were the first Native American children in the Port Angeles school system. It was not an easy integration. They were bullied and beaten daily by the other children, having stones and slurs hurled at them with no one stepping in. When Lillian went to the White principal about this, it was clear he didn't see it as severe. I wonder if he dared to utter the words "kids will be kids" in front of an angry Bear Mother trying to protect her cubs. When he finally agreed to act, his generous solution was to release the siblings ten minutes earlier than everyone else, to give them a head start on their run home. It didn't always work.”

Kids Race Family Racism Native Bullying Integration Indigenous

Author:Leah Myers

Source: Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

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

Wanted School Learning Grandmother Far Away My Grandmother Good Education

Author:Margaret Mead

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

Want Taught One Day Cooks Aspiration Restaurants Grandmother Italian Chef My Grandmother

Author:Jeremy Miller

“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.”

Has Beens Facts Values Strong Influence Huge Enormous Grandmother Very Strong My Grandmother Formidable

Author:Anthony Minghella

“My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.”

Way Looks Kind Persons Made Book Known Growing Style New York Guides Despite Grandmother Pool My Grandmother Wire Noodles Hangers Parenting Styles

Author:Sloane Crosley

“My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.”

Wells Common Ministers Grandmother My Grandmother 1930s

Author:Colin Firth

“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.”

“My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.”

People Mother Cooking Dinner Thirty Kitchen Grandmother Farms Typical My Grandmother Recipes

Author:Willard Scott

Source: If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First

“My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.”

Two Death Three Husband Tough Grandmother Buried My Grandmother Naps Old Jokes Grand Mother Tough Women

Author:Rita Rudner

“My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility.”

“My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.”

Thinking Persons Grandmother My Grandmother Happy Person Upbeat

Author:Lamar Odom

“My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher or wherever and tell people, 'My grandson is going to be the next Calvin Klein.'”

People Next Grandmother My Grandmother Supermarkets Butchers Grandson

Author:Marc Jacobs

“My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.”

Firsts Film Crazy Stage Dad Shots Universal My Dad Studios Credit Actresses Grandmother Forty Contracts My Grandmother Universal Studios

Author:Chris Pine

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

Wells Able Reading Teacher Importance Grandmother My Grandmother Stressed English Teacher Importance Of Reading

Author:Kevin Gates

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

Might Turns Empathy Grandmother Storyteller My Grandmother Preview

Author:Chris Ware

“My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.”

Littles America House Born Growing Up Growing Tales Grandmother Racist My Grandmother Mississippi Alabama Prairie Little House On The Prairie

Author:David Alan Grier

“My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity. Marc and I want to make sure we're doing that. This period of our lives is not just a tribute to her, it's inspired by her. And it's for when we have our own children — I want to help make sure we've got a world I want them to live in.”

World Want Feels Children Helping Life Is Opportunity Our Lives Periods Optimism Inspired Determined Grandmother My Grandmother Tribute

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.”

People Care Poet Baby Medicine Fearless Grandmother Chemistry Mexico Songwriters My Grandmother Energetic Delivering 1930s Arranged Marriage

Author:Salma Hayek

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