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“I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and ice cream socials, about ladies leaving calling cards and the milkman with his horse-drawn wagon, I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny's childhood-a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace”

School Certain Felt Childhood Calling Horse Independent Leaving Entertainment Welcome Cards Ice Unexpected Grandmother Rays Cream Ice Cream Spirited Wagons Granny Hart Milkman

Author:Ann M. Martin

“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.”

Dream Song Albums Ghost Grandmother Imaginary Rumor Visiting Imaginary Things

Author:Florence Welch

“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.”

Said Young Mother Father Talking Gone Doctors Grandmother My Grandmother Fever

Author:Stark Young

“My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.”

Long Said Home School Mother Father Left Behinds Understood Boring Saved Piano Grandmother My Sister Left Behind Me Alone Adorable School Life So Boring

Author:Michel Legrand

“The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.”

Fighting Streets Grandmother Allies Break Up Breaking Promises

Author:Joe Bob Briggs

“My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.”

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition

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

Littles Used Picks Piano Grandmother Little Things My Grandmother

Author:Billy Strayhorn

“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 grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.”

States Girl United United States Mets Catholic Ships Grandmother Immigrants Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather Crossings This Girl Overboard Crossing Over

Author:Emanuel Celler

“I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.”

Knows Way Children Able Wind Blow Storm My Children Grandmother Sail

Book:Resilience: The New Afterword

Source: Resilience: The New Afterword

“Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.”

Years Littles Courses Bits Wonderful Share Little Bit My Favorite Grandmother Southern Dishes Recipes Mama Lighters

Author:Paula Deen

“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.”

Made Eye Mother Advice Taught Grandmother My Grandmother Condom

Author:Usher

“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?”

Ifs Humans Reason Animal Conscious Sticks Grandmother Vegetarianism Ovens Tasty Your Grandmother

Author:Steven Morrissey

“Sometimes we adopt certain beliefs when we're children and use them automatically when we become adults, without ever checking them out against reality. This brings to mind the story of the woman who always cut off the end of the turkey when she put it in the oven. Her daughter asked her why, and her mother responded, "I don't know. My mother always did it." Then she went and asked her mother, who said, "I don't know. My mother always did it." The she went and asked her grandmother, who said, "The oven wasn't big enough."”

Knows Mind Children Said Ends Sometimes Enough Stories Use Bigs Reality Mother Certain Belief Cutting Daughter Adults Grandmother Turkeys Ovens

Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl

“I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a good grandmother for my granddaughter because I was always so sick. I only hope that I can live long enough to see my granddaughter graduate.”

Long I Can Enough Able Mother Daughter Sick Upset Grandmother My Daughter Graduates Good Mother Granddaughter So Sick

Author:Dorothy Moore

“Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.”

“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.”

Way Years Style Mom Years Ago My Mom Rings Setting Settings Grandmother Engagement Diamond Sentimental My Grandmother Items Victorian Sparkle Pendants

Author:Georgina Chapman

“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.”

Trying Sometimes Success Asks Winning Enjoy Race Streets Beats Faults Ask Me Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Derek Jeter

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

World War Values Taught Mom My Mom Saved War Of The Worlds Grandmother World War Ii My Grandmother Value Of Life

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. My grandmother never owned a house. She cleaned other people's houses so she could afford to rent her own. But she saw her daughter become the first in her family to graduate from college. And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.”

“I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back to the first human born of another human being, whether he liked it or not. Probably, if he or she had been allowed to choose, he would have been frightened and answered: No, I don't want to be born. But no one asked their opinion, and so they were born and lived and died after giving birth to another human being who was not asked to choose, and that one did likewise, for millions of years, right down to us.”

Ifs Way Want Giving Years Firsts Humans Has Beens Mother Born Human Beings Opinion Millions Birth Died Arrogance Grandmother Frightened My Grandmother Giving Birth

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.”

“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.”

Friends Originals Sticks Careful Grandmother Be Careful Smooth My Grandmother Stay Positive

Author:Wayne Wonder

“I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.”

Able Jesus Support My Family Grandmother Thank God My Grandmother

Author:Steven Adler

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

Said Mother Cold Snow Goodbye Grandmother Farewell Cabins Log Cabins

Author:Anders Zorn

“When the chips are down, grandmothers can be counted on to do whatever's necessary. When the chips are down for grandfathers, we just go into the kitchen and get more chips.”

Kitchen Grandmother Grandfather Chips

Author:Mike Milligan

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

People Mother New York Cooking Grandmother My Grandmother Cleaning

Author:David Dinkins

“It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.”

Different Would Be Odd Piano Grandmother Household

Author:Diane Cilento

“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.”

People House Memories Childhood Grandmother Strongest Scent My Grandmother Childhood Memories

Book:Big Stone Gap: A Novel

Source: Big Stone Gap: A Novel

“The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down the mountain road like a tank . . . I flag it down like an old friend. I've waited on this corner every Friday since I can remember. The Bookmobile is just a government truck, but to me it's a glittering royal coach delivering stories and knowledge and life itself. I even love the smell of books. 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 on the Bookmobile.”

“I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.”

“My look is more grandmother’s leftovers than heroin chic.”

Looks Grandmother Heroin Chic Leftovers

Author:Alice Glass

“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.”

Imagination Identity Pure Grandmother Linked My Grandmother My Imagination Filipino

Author:Jessica Hagedorn

“Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.”

Writing Letters Grandmother Your Grandmother

Author:Philip Gulley

“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.”

People Ifs Wanted Purpose Lost Interest Grandmother Olympics My Grandmother Martyrdom

Author:Emily Levine

“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.”

Mother Grandmother Phenomenal Phenomenal Woman Your Grandmother

Author:Maya Angelou

“The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today”

Made Today Mother Winning Women Inspiring Millions Gone Alive Generations Thousand Capable Bounds Active Determined Empowering Grandmother Mother And Grandmother

Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage

“When my son will be born, my first goal will be for him. The rest, will be as always for my grandmother.”

Firsts Goal Born Son Grandmother My Son My Grandmother

Author:Lionel Messi

“I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.”

Remember Healthy Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Prince William

“You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.”

People Mother Night Middle Delight Artistic Grandmother Torment Middle Of The Night Mother And Grandmother

Author:Sergei Parajanov

“Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving birth don't make the same mistakes as their mothers or grandmothers-they make new ones.”

Giving Littles Care Mother Parent Mistake Generations Birth Grandmother Giving Birth Same Mistakes Cumulative Maternity

Book:Childbirth with Insight

Source: Childbirth with Insight

“I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.”

Two Grandmother Julia

Book:Home: a memoir of my early years

Source: Home: a memoir of my early years

“Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in the universe returns to the common source. Returning to the source is serenity. If you don't realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king. Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.”

Ifs Mind Heart Universe Realizing Deals Common Wonder Watches Ready Source Return Kings Sorrow Empty Confusion Grandmother Contemplating Serenity Tao Turmoil Amused Disinterested Where You Come

Author:Laozi

“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.”

Young Mother House Luxury Grandmother Valleys My Grandmother Gorgeous

Author:Kirsten Dunst

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

Thinking I Can Eating Meat Grandmother Vegan Truthful Disgusting Biting Your Grandmother Eating Meat

Author:Steven Morrissey

“I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived. 'I go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand,' Maya Angelou proclaimed in her poem 'Our Grandmothers.' When I move through the world, I bring all my history with me-all the people who paved the way for me are part of who I am.”

People World Way Stills Moving Inspiring Brother Thousand Ten Who I Am Rely I've Learned Grandmother Hardship Survived Tested Aunt Influential Unimaginable Angelou

Book:What I Know For Sure

Source: What I Know For Sure

“A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.”

Air Towns Filled Smell Grandmother Lilac

Author:Laura Miller

“I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.”

Thinking Way Looks Eye Faces Mother Nice Mouths Skins Appearance Noses Grandmother My Sister My Grandmother

Author:Kathy Bates

“She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean.”

Ifs Men Made Feelings Wish Enjoy Dark Wonder Sun Tears Hair Ocean Understood Men And Women Rain Weather Dry Sand Grandmother Lightning Protective

Author:Sara Sheridan

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

World War Incredibles Memoir War Of The Worlds Grandmother World War Ii Nurse World War I My Grandmother

Author:Jessica Brown Findlay

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