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“My grandmother was extremely smart when it came to money, but she also worried a lot about not having enough. So it's with her in mind that I aim to explain complicated financial things so the folks like her won't be afraid to make certain money moves.”

Mind Enough Moving Certain Smart Aim Financial Folks Complicated Worried Grandmother My Grandmother Like Her

Author:Michelle Singletary

“My grandmother was from Guelph, Ont. I grew up playing ice hockey, I'm a massive fan. A great-uncle who was in the early days of the NHL played for the Chicago Blackhawks.”

Grandmother Hockey My Grandmother

Author:Don Winslow

“My grandmother was German. She didn't teach any of her children German. She really wanted them to be American. And now, she's since passed away, I get so frustrated sometimes. I'm like, "Oh, Oma, why didn't you teach your kids German?" My dad would have spoken German to me from birth, and I would have spoken German.”

Children Sometimes Kids Wanted Teach Birth Dad My Dad Grandmother Frustrated My Grandmother Passed Away

Author:Dakota Fanning

“My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.”

“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better.”

“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.”

Past Terrible Happenings Moved Grandmother My Grandmother Overwhelmed

Author:Alice Hoffman

“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. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.”

Years Firsts Persons Character Bigs Beautiful Our Lives Car Hair Boxes Grandmother Cartoon My Grandmother First Person Stylish Cartoon Character Big Hair Big Cars

Author:Tom Ford

“My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.”

“My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!”

World Looks Whole Tables Cooks Kitchen Grandmother My Grandmother Tornadoes Best Food

Author:Edie Brickell

“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.”

House Smart Grandmother Opera My Grandmother Soap Soap Operas Just Realized

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.”

People Hard Findings Sitting Grandmother Owners Grandparent My Grandmother Fragments Monument Ants Benches Crawling Tombstone Glaciers Wheelbarrows

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: Letters

“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.”

Honest Wind Ambition Convinced Being Honest Grandmother My Grandmother Canterbury

Author:Hugh Grant

“My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.”

Wide Grandmother Fierce My Grandmother

Author:Salman Rushdie

“My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.”

Important Stories Sides Religious Rich Female Stores Grandmother Legends My Grandmother Judaism Religious Education

Author:Marge Piercy

“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.”

Littles Balls Flight Grandmother Uniforms My Grandmother Back When Stewardess Flight Attendant

Author:Erika Christensen

“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.”

Children Mother Church Decided Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Gloria Gaynor

“My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall.”

Fruit Grandmother Vegetables My Grandmother Fruits And Vegetables

Author:Petra Stunt

“My grandmother would always tell me that I was hers, that I was Mexican. That was her role. It was not my teacher's role to tell me I was Mexican. It was my teacher's role to tell me I was an American.”

Roles Teacher Grandmother My Grandmother Mexican

Author:Richard Rodriguez

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

Eating Saint Meat Grandmother Hunters My Grandmother Medieval Scrap Relics Musings

Author:Rose Quiello

“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.'”

Wells Looks Speak Taught Gentleman Grandmother Southern Grandparent My Grandmother Parents And Grandparents Your Grandmother Grandparents Day Mother And Grandmother Great Grandparents Great Grandmother Grandmas And Moms Mothers Day Grandma Southern Gentleman

Author:Jamie Foxx

“My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food - the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip a Cuban record.”

Kind Records Baby Grandmother Slips Pilots My Grandmother Airports Cuban Peaches Shanghai Havana

Author:Gloria Estefan

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

Ifs Children Speak Rooms Democrat Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke

“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.”

Firsts Heart Stills Brain First Time Democrat Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Emo Philips

“My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.”

Years Firsts Long Two Bigs Mother White Pieces Feet Stones Twenties Bounds Rounds China Wounds Crush Grandmother Two Years Sole Inward Toes My Grandmother Arches Bending Two Year Olds

Author:Jung Chang

“My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow.”

Today Opportunity Saws Generations Tomorrow Circumstances Prosperity Grandmother Horizon My Grandmother

Author:Julian Castro

“My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up in the shadows of a North Carolina plantation. It's only been in my lifetime that blacks have had the right to vote, live in certain areas or hold certain jobs. It is with this black history that I write about the financial challenges African-Americans still have.”

“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.”

Kind Ends Together Tears Mom Laughter My Mom Driven Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother Get Together Family Get Together

Author:Yelawolf

“My grandmother, she passed away at Christmas time. So now, I have this built in sadness, you know, every holiday. 'Cause I'm plagued with the thought of, you know, what she would have given me. What didn't I get to open this year?”

Knows Years Given Causes Sadness Built Holiday Grandmother My Grandmother Passed Away Christmas Time Thoughts Of You

Author:Laura Kightlinger

“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.”

Should Church Bother Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Muddy Waters

“My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.”

Want Enough Force Church Raised Grandmother Portions My Grandmother Baptists

Author:Curtis Jackson

“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.'”

Firsts Said Scene Phones Grandmother My Grandmother Phone Calls American Movie

Author:Marina Abramovic

“My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you. She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.”

Happens Life Is Challenges Core Grandmother My Grandmother Adages Public Life November Passed Away

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.”

World Children Disappear Grandmother Significance Fascinated Apartment My Grandmother

Author:Arnon Goldfinger

“My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.”

Hands Strong Memories Clean Grandmother Wet Rolling My Grandmother Veins Clay Soap Onions

Author:Margaret Walker

Source: This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems

“My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrass for a moment but not asking a question is embarrasing for a life time”

Life Lessons

Author:Haruki Murakami

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“My Grandpa always said, people like me in the past might not have been the most sociable. Or the chattiest. But while everyone else was around the fireplace gossiping, we were out finding electricity. That's what my autism is. It's a kind of spark. It's like sharks, you see.”

Love Light Passion Emotions Oneness Sparks Experiences

Author:Elle McNicoll

Source: A Kind of Spark

“My grandpa could go days, weeks, even months without a drink but if he took that first drink, he couldn't stop. Once, when I was twelve, my mom and I were driving and we saw my grandpa staggering drunk down the street. I asked if we should stop and help him. My mom sadly shook her head and kept driving.”

Ifs Should Firsts Helping Saws Week Streets Mom Months Drink My Mom Driving Drunk Twelve Grandpa Staggering

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying I love you. His love had to do with the way he treated you. When he said, We're going here, we're going there, he was telling me about life. That was his love for me. My love for him was listening to what he said, keeping out of trouble, doing right, being fair.”

Way Believe Said Trouble Love You Listening Kissing Fairs Treated Hug His Love Grandpa Say I Love You Doing Right

Author:Bill Cosby

“My grandpa taught me how to live off the land.”

Land Taught Grandpa

Author:Hank Williams, Jr.

“My grandpa used to say, ‘the heart knows what it wants even when the head doesn’t.”

Snow Sweet Romance Christmas Romance Clean Romance Single Father Feel Good Romance

Author:Nancy Naigle

Source: Christmas In Evergreen

“My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again.”

Years Growing Up Growing Horse Texas Cowboy Cattle Arizona Grandpa

Author:Austin Butler

“My grandpa was a preacher.”

Preacher Grandpa

Author:Dolly Parton

“My grandpa was an amateur stand-up comic when I was growing up. ... He'd have me come up onstage with him to deliver a punch line: 'Why is your nose in the middle of your face?' 'Because it's the scenter.'”

Faces Lines Growing Up Growing Middle Come Up Comic Noses Your Face Grandpa

Author:Rachel Bloom

“My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.”

South South Africa Grandparent Lithuania

Author:Antony Sher

“My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.”

Grew Grew Up Mexico Grandparent Mexican Mexican Food

Author:M. Ward

“My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.”

Humans Age Young Human Beings Horrible Survivor Holocaust Grandparent Young Age Holocaust Survivor

Author:Max Bemis

“My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So to make money in the summer we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.”

House Cutting Summer Making Money Farms Grandparent Tobacco Kentucky

Author:George Clooney

“My grandparents came worked hard, and I believe they never regretted their decision to come here and make a new start.”

Believe Hard I Believe Decision Grandparent Never Regret New Start

Author:Samuel Alito

“My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.”

Thinking Age Young Married Grandparent Young Age

Author:Kyle Chandler

“My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery/restaurant. They sold wine from their own vineyard. I took control of the vineyard, hired a local winemaker, and bought another winery in 1996. We had our first commercial vintage in 1998.”

Firsts Kind Wine Locals Restaurants Grandparent Groceries Vintage Vineyards

Author:Joe Bastianich

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