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“A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.”

Real Eye Food Tears Sweet Cooking Grandmother Culinary Bites Georgia Backyards Sweaters Peaches Orchard Fluent Great Grandmother Flannels

Book:Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction

Source: Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction

“Always and Forever is a Grandmothers love”

Forever Grandmother Always And Forever

Author:Kathy Griffin

“I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.”

Children Age Mother Three Strong Poor Growing Up Growing Generations Brother Grew Grew Up Raised Enormous Birthday Grandmother Household My Grandmother 60th Birthday

Author:Cate Blanchett

“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.”

Looks Children Mother Father Bits Parent Interesting Growing Up Growing Grandmother My Grandmother Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:John Hume

“You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement.”

Knows Use Courses Language Journey Movement Lays Assuming Faults Our Family Fixed Grandmother Going Away Permit My Grandmother Verbs

Author:Amitav Ghosh

“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!”

People Want Looks Stories Pages Grandmother Good People My Grandmother

Book:Last Tales

Source: Last Tales

“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.”

Years Young Father Died Raised Christmas Brown Grandmother Chickens My Grandmother Emma Father Died My Father Died

Author:George Weah

“When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.”

Death Realizing Deals Wonder Ready Kings Grandmother Amused Where You Come

Author:Laozi

“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

“Some moments can only be cured with a big squishy grandma hug.”

Moments Bigs Grandmother Hug Grandma

Author:Daniel Pearce

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

Persons White Racism Grandmother Racist Typical Harbors Leftists Animosity Anti Racism Anti Racist White Racism

Author:Barack Obama

“Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.”

“Valentine's day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine's Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but now everyone's like 'Oh, happy valentine's day!' I even got a Valentine's Day card from my grandmother. How ridiculous is that? We stopped having sex years ago!”

“I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.”

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

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

“Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.”

Source: Feeding the Eagles: Short Stories

“I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.”

Film Theater Grandmother

Author:Romany Malco

“I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for.”

Source: Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

“It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.”

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

Kind Influence Singing Loud Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Cassandra Wilson

“Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.”

Political Politics Doubt Policy Grandmother Conservatism When In Doubt Your Grandmother

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“Every day of my adult life, I have worn at least one piece of jewelry from my maternal grandmother's collection, all of which were manufactured by famed Danish silversmith Georg Jensen. To the naked eye, I am either a Jensen loyalist or a grandmother loyalist. Really I am just a Pretty Things loyalist.”

Eye Pieces Adults Naked Collections Grandmother Worn Jewelry One Piece Danish Naked Eyes Pretty Things Loyalists

Author:Sloane Crosley

“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 spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.”

Giving Children Stills Hard Whole Mother Work Chance Brother Whole Life Cooks My Brother Grandmother My Grandmother Maids Only Child Babysitter Scraping Chances In Life

Author:Julian Castro

“My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.”

Should Government Able Night Community Walks Views Opinion Worry Streets Speech Management Grandmother Freedom Of Speech Your Grandmother Streets At Night

Author:Jimmy Wales

“I've got a lot of experience with anorexia - my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it. I know it's not something to be taken lightly and I don't.”

Knows School Taken Grandmother My Grandmother Anorexia Lots Of Friends Great Grandmother

Author:Keira Knightley

“Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible way he'd abused my grandmother and my mother. He did things like shave my grandmother's head and lock her in a closet. With my mother's help, my grandmother finally left him.”

Way Helping Mother Left Growing Up Alive Growing Violence Terrible My Family Grandmother Grandfather Locks Closets My Grandmother Domestic Violence My Grandfather

Author:Deborah Pryce

“I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.”

Mean Age Grandmother

Author:Lillie Langtry

“Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don't forget indigestion. I wasn't different from anyone else: There sat the 18-pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me.”

“More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'”

Soul Prayer Sleep Lord Praying Bed Lays My Soul Grandmother My Grandmother I Pray Paraphrase

Author:Neil Peart

“At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.”

Age Grandmother Fifteen My Grandmother Warlords Concubines

Book:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.”

Writing Firsts Persons Age White Saws First Time Skins Grandmother Iron Metals Burned My Grandmother Nomad Artifacts

Book:Infidel

Source: Infidel

“I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.”

Children Color Flesh Grandmother Display My Grandmother Exhibitions Lace Salmon Corsets Satin

Author:Jean Paul Gaultier

“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.”

Way Has Beens Different Inspiration Artist Boys Type Grandmother Impressed Muse My Grandmother Captured Bowie Annie

Author:Jean Paul Gaultier

“[My grandmother] is a typical white person.”

Persons White Grandmother Typical My Grandmother

Author:Barack Obama

“I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.”

Action Mother Father Church Products Mass Grandmother Protest Resentment Grandfather My Grandmother Indignation Militant Branded

Author:Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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

Ifs Home Kids Mother Walks Basketball Grandmother Nba Disrespect Recruit

Author:John Calipari

“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, 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

“I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention, ignored. At dark, I kept reading, first on the couch, a bologna sandwich in one hand, then in my bed, by the light of a 60-watt bulb hanging from the ceiling on an orange drop cord. When my mother came in from her job as a maid and unplugged my chandelier, I replayed the story in my head until it was crowded out by dreams. I woke the next morning, smelling biscuits, and reached for the book again.”

“We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.”

Years Mother Actors Black Five Wife Achievement Late Beloved Five Years Fifty Remarkable Grandmother Diplomats Salute Great Grandmother Mother Grandmother Beloved Mother

Author:Shirley Temple

“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.”

World Looks Stars Taste Offers Grandmother Chef My Grandmother Pits Best Food

Author:Nadia Giosia

“My grandmother influenced me so deeply.”

Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Jan Karon

“In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful.”

Mother Three Community Wonderful Taught College Proud Six Locals Grandmother Owners Nurse Small Business Business Owners Small Business Owners Community College Local Community

Author:Diane Black

“Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is the way it's supposed to work. This is God's plan: father and mother, grandfather and grandmother teaching their children; children learning from them and then becoming a more righteous generation through their own personal experiences and opportunities. Learning the lessons of the past allows you to build personal testimony on a solid bedrock of obedience, faith, and the witness of the Spirit.”

“Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.”

Men Helping Mother Tales Fairy Grandmother Maps Fairy Tale Manuals Mother And Grandmother

Author:Marina Warner

“But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: 'Don't. You will regret it. One day you will wake up with no eyebrows and think how stupid you were. Your eyebrows are the most beautiful thing about you.'”

Thinking Said Beautiful Saws Stupid Regret One Day Wake Up Grandmother Beautiful Things My Grandmother Eyebrows You Will Regret

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“I just think I'm blessed. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. I have a great grandmother that passed away at 104 and two grandparents that passed away at 97 and 95 and they never worried about protein. They just enjoyed life and that's what I'm doing.”

Thinking Two Jesus Christ Lord Jesus Christ Blessed Enjoyed Worried Grandmother Grandparent Protein Lord Jesus Christ Passed Away Great Grandmother

Author:Herschel Walker

“My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.”

Grandmother Smallest My Grandmother

Author:Koichi Tanaka

“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.”

Moments Husband Grandmother Coats Belts Boxers Shorts Your Husband Do It Yourself Towels Chic Your Grandmother

Author:Vivienne Westwood

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