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“It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.”

Knows Littles Country Bigs Together Mother Nations Inspiring Wife Mom Married Daughter Grandmother Mothers Day Little Sister Big Sister Widowed

Author:Ann Romney

“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.”

Thinking Sometimes Used Girl Died Be Good Grandmother Hung Scent My Grandmother Perfume Signatures This Girl Deceased Recently Deceased

Author:Mark Ronson

“Elephants and grandchildren never forget.”

Source: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

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

Wide Grandmother Fierce My Grandmother

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine,' Rushdie says. 'Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.”

People Kind Stories Bigs New York Mines Circumstances Grandmother Big Things Somewhere Else Polish Metamorphosis

Author:Salman Rushdie

“For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.”

World Today Mother Choices Inspiring Rooms Careers Lucky Grandmother Mothers Day Admitting Careers Choices

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“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

“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.”

Men Should Left Taught Color Deeds Every Man Witness Grandmother Judged Household My Grandmother Jehovah

Author:Jill Scott

“I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity we ate romantically, by candlelight.”

“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

“The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!”

Art Given Growing Up Growing Jazz Clubs Supposed To Be Grandmother Silver Take Me Concerts Mum My Grandmother Best Gift Silver Platter

Author:Jill Scott

“Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine.”

Littles I Can Remember Girl House Mom Everyday My Mom Hearing Good Times Grandmother Routine Closets Aunt Accessories Wigs Staples

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“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

“When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.”

Littles Running Fall Church Memories White Middle Scary Grandmother Sheets My Grandmother Shouting Baptists

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandfathers or my grandmothers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.”

Book Mother Happened Mets Truth Is Yesterday Phrases Germany Gas Grandmother Holocaust Grandfather Nazi My Grandmother Chamber My Grandfather History Books Nazi Germany Gas Chambers

Author:Gene Simmons

“Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.”

Cancer Breasts Grandmother Survivor My Grandmother Breast Cancer Passed Away

Author:Jessica Simpson

“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.”

Wanted Beautiful Mother Father Drink China Cups Grandmother My Grandmother Liverpool Very Beautiful Cocoa

Author:Patti Smith

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

Knows Grandmother Unconditional Love My Grandmother Unconditional Grand Mother

Author:Andre Leon Talley

“The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.”

Moments Doors Childhood Fronts Screens Kitchen Grandmother Chickens Orange My Grandmother County Ham Porch Front Porches Durham Orange County Screen Doors

Author:Andre Leon Talley

“One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.”

Beautiful Next Voice Memories Rooms Singing Seven Grandmother Realising Embarrassed My Grandmother Carried Away

Author:James Taylor

“My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.”

People Grades Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather Industrious Frugal Sixth Grade Barely Getting By

Author:Clarence Thomas

“I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.”

Thinking Roles Grandmother

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”

Author:Desmond Tutu

“My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is.”

Remember Mother Purpose Roles Teach Support Be Good God Love Grandmother Where You Are Nurture Offspring

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“Never have children, only grandchildren.”

Children Kids Humorous Parenting Grandmother Grandparent Grandchildren

Book:Palimpsest: a memoir

Source: Palimpsest: a memoir

“Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.”

Firsts Persons Beautiful Remember Mother Left Religious First Time Train Intense Grandmother My Grandmother Pilgrimage Religious Person Beautiful Experiences Lourdes

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.”

Mother Family Creativity Creative Flower Letters Parenting Motherhood Seeds Grandmother Sparks Mothering Great Mother Mother And Grandmother Creative Spark

Book:Everyday Use

Source: Everyday Use

“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

Book:This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems

Source: This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems

“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.”

People Way Want Children Behave Grandmother My Grandmother Old People Eccentric Short Time

Author:Julie Walters

“Today there are people trying take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.”

“My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.”

Wells Art Play Parent Perfect Records Connections Radio Piano Grandmother My Grandmother Listening To Music Art And Music

Author:Gerard Way

“When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”

“A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.”

Source: The Little House Book of Memories

“As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.”

Funny Growing Up Growing Mess Grandmother Grandma Royal Family Your Grandmother

Author:Prince William

“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.”

Ifs Knows Kids Asks Come Up Ask Me Grandmother Underwear Autographs Good Place

Author:Prince William

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

Moments Black Racism Grandmother Racist Sheep My Grandmother Discomfort Black Sheep Black Sheep Of The Family

Author:Lisa Bonet

“A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.”

Political Politics Doubt Conservative Grandmother My Grandmother When In Doubt Being A Grandmother Grand Mother Anti Conservative

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.”

Moments Remember Lines Space Knowing Awareness Clothes Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“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.”

Source: Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother

“Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.”

Source: Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother

“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them. Each funeral was a funeral for all of us. We lived and died together. All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground. And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt. And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses.”

Knows Way Said Together House Laughing Cry Tears Laughter Lonely Died Goodbye Grandmother Covered Laughed Funeral Dirt My Grandmother Bye Good Bye

Author:Sherman Alexie

“There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.”

Ifs Book Culture Nations Moral Saws Television Finals Contemporary Manifestation Grandmother Abandoned Decline My Grandmother Cathedrals Decadence Steadfast Shrines Deterioration

Book:A Prayer For Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany

“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.”

Years Known Study Limits Hundred Weight Average Tiny Grandmother Eighty Ants Peasants Lifting

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.”

Knows Said Suffering Blessing Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Joan Bauer

“Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.”

Eye Legs Grandmother Reverse Your Grandmother Tractors

Author:Hugh Laurie

“So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.”

Ifs Giving Lord Kissing Grandmother Hug Grandma

Author:Lois Wyse

“[Grandfather] would manufacture funnies with Grandmother before she died about how he was in love with other women who were not her. She knew it was only funnies because she would laugh in volumes. 'Anna,' he would say, 'I am going to marry that one with the pink hat.' And she would say, 'To whom are you going to marry her?' And he would say, 'To me.' I would laugh very much in the back seat, and she would say to him, 'But you are no priest.' And he would say, 'I am today.' And she would say, 'Today you believe in God?' And he would say, 'Today I believe in love.”

Believe Today I Believe Laughing Died I Believe In Seats Hats Grandmother Priests Believe In God Grandfather Volume Anna Believe In Love I Believe In Love

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile 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. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.”

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.”

Ifs Evil Church Five Special Mass Grandmother Officers Collapse Sixty Marvelous Swans Facade Starlings Typhoid

Book:The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

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