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“My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.”

Feels Real Sides Mom My Mom Fairy Grandmother Deceased Godmother Fairy Godmother

Author:Victoria Clark

“I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am I supposed to do?' and she said, 'Just wait, we're going inside to greet the light.' I liked that—this idea to go inside to find that light within, literally as well as figuratively.”

Wells Said Ideas Light House Waiting Sitting Meetings Grandmother My Grandmother Quaker Light Within

Author:James Turrell

“A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.”

“Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us.”

Thinking Knows Believe Pity Grandmother Do You Know Skeptic Pious

Author:Isak Dinesen

“My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.”

Thinking Years Made School Jobs Week Died Cooking Grandmother My Grandmother School Lunch Granddaddy

Author:Willie Nelson

“My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.”

Knows Years Two Book Play Wanted Next Couple Guitar Piano Grandmother Two Years My Sister My Grandmother Chords

Author:Willie Nelson

“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

“Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.”

Has Beens Girl Black Clouds Grandmother Rainbow My Grandmother Sexually Barefoot Arkansas Black Girl

Author:Maya Angelou

“My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.”

Kids School Teach Missing Fool Dancing Raised Vices Grandmother Ballet My Grandmother

Author:Michelle Shocked

“Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.”

Book Real Bears Relation Grandmother Sarcasm Culinary Sarcastic Cookbook Microwaves Your Grandmother Real Books

Book:Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research

Source: Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research

“Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.”

“Use your internal grandmother for guidance and advice.”

Use Advice Guidance Internals Grandmother

Author:Sark

“Consider your second attention as a spiritual perceiver. Consider how you use it. You may plead innocence. You're not doing anything wrong. Don't feel that you've sinned. You have done what you had to do to survive, as did your mother, as did your grandmother.”

Feels May Done Use Spiritual Mother Women Attention Enlightenment Innocence Grandmother Your Grandmother

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother was German and my maternal grandfather was Greek. The next time I fill out one of those forms I am going to check 'Other' and write in the truth about my racial and cultural heritage: 'African-Greek-German-American.' And proud of it.”

Thinking Should Writing America Form Next Proud Boxes Checks African American Greek Grandmother Heritage Grandfather Next Time Cultural Heritage Hominids

Book:Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

“Being a mom, I love to play with my kids and have fun with them, but I also love fashion. My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.”

Play Whole Kids Fun Fashion Mom My Mom Whole Life Having Fun Grandmother My Grandmother Being A Mom Love Fashion

Author:Kourtney Kardashian

“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.”

“In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.”

Thinking Men Looks Doe Whole Mother Lines Wife Daughter Female Grandmother Ancestry Prudent Marrying

Author:Maria Edgeworth

“There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.”

Thinking Knows Way Years Real Three Games Students Baseball Grandmother Three Years Eighty Puberty Three Year Olds

Author:Alvin Dark

“I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.”

Years Made Use Home Remember Used Pieces Objects Taught Materials Mom Machines My Mom Singers Grandmother Flats My Grandmother Intriguing Sewing Pedals

Author:Bibhu Mohapatra

“I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.”

People Faces Belief Interest Missing Humour Determination Difficulty Calm British Grandmother My Grandmother Vitality Lives Of Others Steadfast Unstoppable Mischievous Courage And Determination

Author:Prince Charles

“My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.”

Doe Care Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Prince William

“My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'”

Men Matter Gone Subjects Serious Harder Historical Queens Grandmother Shy My Grandmother

Author:Prince William

“Everybody thinks that you go to Africa and you build a school, or you teach English, or you build a hospital. But actually all you need to do is play football with kids for six months and then after they've trusted you, you tell them about the truth of Aids, and that their grandmother didn't die from witchcraft, she died from Aids. And that's the biggest difference you can make.”

Thinking Needs Play Kids School Dies Differences Teach Football Months Six Died Aids Grandmother Hospitals Trusted Six Months Witchcraft

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.”

Men Matter Might Mother Virtue Our Lives Wife Changed Honor Moon No Matter What Grandmother Threatened Virgins Restlessness Rigidity Faithless Mother Grandmother Wife Mother Togas

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“I used to love hospitals. That's another weird thing about me. I remember when my grandmother -- so sweet, God rest her soul -- was in the hospital, I always loved visiting her there. Very morbid memory! Most people hate hospitals. And I'm not a big fan of them now, but there was something about it for me back then.”

People Soul Bigs Remember Used Hate Memories Fans Sweet Grandmother Hospitals My Grandmother Remember When Visiting Morbid Weird Things Used To Love

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.”

Knows Suffering Love Is Grandmother I Have Learned

Author:Djuna Barnes

“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

“And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!”

Mind Two Mother Can Do Struggle Saws Lessons Overcoming Grandmother Hardship Invaluable Amazing Woman

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!”

Moments Culture Clothes Capitalism Feminist Dependent Grandmother Present Moment My Grandmother Porch

Author:Camille Paglia

“I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.”

Thinking Mother Next Generations Daughter China Grandmother My Grandmother The Next One Goofy

Author:Grace Slick

“My mother and grandmothers could never have lived my life; my father and my grandfathers could never have imagined it. But they bestowed on me the promise of America, which made my life and my choices possible.”

Made America Mother Choices Father Promise Grandmother Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Hillary Clinton

“By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.”

Modern Flow Ultimate Details Grandmother Dna Ancestry Modern Times

Author:Bryan Sykes

“As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me.”

Years Made Girl Issues Impression Grandmother Lasting My Grandmother Lasting Impressions

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with her has no imagination.”

Feels Fall Imagination Golf Falling In Love Grandmother Elegant Eccentric Visiting Golf Course I'm Back

Author:Tony Lema

“A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother”

Needs Persons Sometimes Flower Plant Hungry Grandmother Chickens Cousin Hog Great Grandmother Cherokee Your Cousin

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.”

People World Kind Two Wisdom Today Used Politics Economy Knowing This World Gold Horse Stuck Impression Ass Liberalism Grandmother Covered My Grandmother

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.”

Play Shows Sides Five Brother Dad Musician Instruments My Dad My Brother Grandmother My Grandmother Show Business Cousin My Cousin Puerto Rico Mario Rico

Author:Irene Cara

“I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.”

Thinking World Want Humans Stills Important Hard Use Wanted Mother Choices Fighting Easy Human Beings Taken Talent Understood Feminist Grandmother My Grandmother Reservations

Author:Erica Jong

“If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be.”

Ifs Thinking Want Wells Ends Stories Seems Sex Violence Tvs Like You Grandmother Afternoon Opera Soap Cables Soap Operas Cinematography Your Grandmother

Author:William Monahan

“The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.”

Way Bigs Might School Values Hate Class Teach Example Financial Debt Handle Grandmother Literacy My Grandmother Mama Financial Literacy Big Mama

Author:Michelle Singletary

“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

“Christ has meant everything to our marriage. It was my commitment to Christ and the words from my grandmother that made me stick with Phil [Robertson] when there wasn't much to hold on to. How has Phil changed? Do you have a year to hear about it? His love for the outdoors, his pioneer spirit, and his quest for adventure has not changed. But his heart has been turned inside out. He's a new man in every way that involves relationships.”

Men Way Heart Has Beens Made Spirit Christ Changed Adventure Commitment Sticks Grandmother Quests My Grandmother Pioneers Pioneer Spirit

Author:Kay Robertson

“Although I love all the great foods of the world, my death row meal would have to be cooked for me by my mother and grandmother (they live together and this happens on most Sundays). More than satisfy our hunger, these dinners nurture the soul.”

World Soul Happens Together Mother Hunger Dinner Meals Grandmother Sunday Nurture Great Food Death Row Mother And Grandmother

Author:Joe Bastianich

“Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.”

Character Stories Mother Grandmother Ireland

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“On the way to the delivery room, I almost changed my mind about having a baby. I wouldn't have found it so hard to go ahead with it if I had realized that having a baby was the only way I could ever become a grandmother.”

Ifs Way Mind Hard Found Rooms Changed Baby Grandmother Grandparent Delivery Having A Baby Delivery Room

Author:Phyllis Diller

“I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.”

“there are no knights on white horses, no magical grandmothers in the sky watching, waiting to rescue us. Teachers may come our way, but they will not rescue. They will teach. People who care will come, but they will not rescue. They will care. Help will come, but help is not rescuing. We are our own rescuers. Our relationships will improve dramatically when we stop rescuing others and stop expecting them to rescue us.”

People Way May Helping Care Waiting White Responsibility Teach Teacher Sky Horse Grandmother Expecting Our Relationship Rescue Who Cares Knights White Horse

Author:Melody Beattie

“Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.”

Bigs Young Sides Nice Fronts Hollywood Grandmother Swings My Grandmother Attics Backsides Starlets

Author:Bette Davis

“Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.”

Ends Hands Life Is Voice Known Grandmother Grandparent End Of Life

Book:Family

Source: Family

“I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.”

Mind Kind Mother Father Sex Ability Intellectual Grandmother Linked

Book:Margaret Mead, some personal views

Source: Margaret Mead, some personal views

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