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“to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.”

Knows May Mother Perfect Grandmother Grandparent Perfect Happiness

Source: Pilgrim's Inn

“Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion.”

World Order Social Grows Steps Opinion Growing Up Citizens Eating Decent Grandmother Grandparent Cookies World Citizen Your Grandmother

Book:Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

“My grandmother ... came here, not only like so many others because of the streets 'being paved with gold' and all, but because she wanted to leave the place where the streets were paved with people who had not gone to America.”

People Wanted America Gone Streets Gold Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Roseanne: my life as a woman

Source: Roseanne: my life as a woman

“A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.”

Men Food Capable Cooking Grandmother Culinary Seducing Stingy Saffron

Author:Norman Douglas

“There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.”

Wells Home Known Growing Up Teacher Growing Piano Grandmother Well Known My Grandmother Piano Teachers

Author:George Brandis

“I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.”

People Knowing Taught Grew Grew Up Advantage Negative Presses Grandmother Rough Influential Mayors Albany

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.”

Ifs Men Generations Vices Satisfied Hats Grandmother Superficiality

Author:Margaret Deland

“I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.”

Knows Together Groups Appearance Grandmother Grandparent Phantoms Hovering

Author:Angela Carter

“As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book.”

Ifs Want Feels Book Age Black Feet Safe Sticks Notes Rap Sentences Strikes These Days Grandmother Denied Feel Better Skirts Rebuke Safe Places Note Book

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.”

Age Causes Natural Middle Members Died Cancer Characteristics Grandmother Teens Uncles My Grandmother Middle Ages Suitcases Racks Luggage

Book:Speedboat

Source: Speedboat

“I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.”

Wish Grows Youth Grandmother Grandparent Extravagance Wanton

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“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

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother”

War Deals Devil Grandmother Deals With The Devil

Author:Joseph Stalin

“The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.”

“we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.”

Travel Grandmother

Book:The Little Colonel's House Party

Source: The Little Colonel's House Party

“If we aren't careful, our children will come down with 'affluenza,' a disease that causes them to confuse wants and needs. We need to teach our children what my grandmother taught me: Think twice about spending money you don't have on things you don't need to impress people you don't like anyway.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Needs Children Causes Money Teach Taught Disease Our Children Careful Spending Grandmother Impress My Grandmother Think Twice Spending Money Wants And Needs

Author:Michelle Singletary

“it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are, to provide food, shelter, protection, advice and discipline, day in and day out, they can afford to be much more easy-going. The unexpected present, the extra outing, the little treat of a favourite meal prepared especially to delight the child and, above all, the time to listen to youthful outpourings, all make a grandmother a loved ally. It is hardly surprising that the bond between grandmother and grandchild is often stronger than that between parent and child.”

“coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.”

Ends Body Death Steps Spring Shoes Kicks Grandmother My Grandmother Faltering

Book:Rooms overhead

Source: Rooms overhead

“In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.”

Persons Seems Faces Mouths Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Anywhere but Here

Source: Anywhere but Here

“One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob.”

Thinking Hands Bigs Grandmother Grandparent My Grandmother Clumsy Delicacy Knuckles Knobs

Book:Near changes: poems

Source: Near changes: poems

“In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.”

Mean Mother Wife Daughter Circles Grandmother Tribes Mother Grandmother

Author:Isabel Allende

“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.”

“Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.”

Years Wells Persons Play Song Term Stage Baby Arms Singing Standing Guitar Folks Singers Grandmother Acoustics Microphones Acoustic Guitar Old Song

Author:Pete Seeger

“My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of course, she was a talkative, jolly, interminably curious woman, who loved people, and who enjoyed the personal details of their lives almost as much as they did themselves.”

People Courses Individual Silent Curiosity Details Curious Enjoyed Grandmother My Grandmother Reserved Jolly Talkative Personal Question

Book:So Laugh A Little

Source: So Laugh A Little

“Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.”

Real Bigs Mother Grandmother About Yourself Momma Keeping It Real

Author:Martin Lawrence

“My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.”

Children Long Lines Birth Grandmother My Grandmother Long Lines

Author:Debra Winger

“I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.”

Poor Raised Grandmother Farms Dirt My Grandmother

Author:Robert Herjavec

“A great tribute, is expressing the great love for a Grandmother we share with our children.”

Children Share Our Children Grandmother Great Love Tribute

Author:Tom Baker

“My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.”

Years Stills States Father United United States Roots Japan Grandmother Ancestor My Grandmother

Author:Apolo Ohno

“Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots!”

Strange Grandmother Strange Things Photo Shoots Being A Grandmother

Author:Neneh Cherry

“I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of not having my father live with us meant that, when it came to understanding the opposite sex, it was like working without a map.”

Father Strong Sex Understanding Lines Results Opposites Raised Grandmother Maps Mary Gypsy

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.”

“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

“There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the ones who feel hurt. The latter are definitely in the minority.”

Feels Firsts Two Home Hurt Type Latter Minorities Grandmother Grandparent Relieved

Author:Mary Margaret McBride

“As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.”

Trying I've Learned Grandmother Disappointed Grandparent Grandchildren

Author:Mary Margaret McBride

“My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And shed come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.”

Made Able Heaven Church Religious Boys Picks Grandmother Sunday Shed My Grandmother Nazarene

Author:John Mellencamp

“My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.”

People Mother Cooking Dinner Thirty Kitchen Grandmother Farms Typical My Grandmother Recipes

Book:If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First

Source: If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First

“My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind... like Robert Plant.”

Mind Plant Grandmother Virgins My Grandmother Things On My Mind

Author:Tori Amos

“One only has an adventure when one makes a mistake, but [as] my grandmother used to say: "You don't have to get out of trouble if you don't get into trouble."”

Ifs Used Mistake History Trouble Adventure Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Richard S. Wheeler

“My grandmother used to say before you moan about the muck on someone else's glasses make sure you're not on about the muck on your own her glasses were filthy”

Used Glasses Grandmother My Grandmother Filthy

Author:John Hegley

“Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like Im sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But its not supposed to be that way.”

Knows Way Feels Sometimes Jobs Mother Acting Talking Supposed To Be France Grandmother Know Me Aunt Not Talking

Author:Carole Bouquet

“Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.”

Hard Young Culture Hard Work Intelligent Brave Contrary Grandmother Mexico My Grandmother Widows Macho Intelligent Women

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.”

Said Father Known Grandmother Denied Mexico Grandfather Fathers And Grandfathers

Author:Susana Martinez

“I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.”

Thinking Knows Writing Long Reason Know How Produce Drink Offers Long Time Reason Why Grandmother Bartender Great Grandmother

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me.”

Feels Generations Tradition Cooking Grandmother Southern Pie My Grandmother Recipes Strawberries

Author:Kimberly Schlapman

“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.”

“Im at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.”

Littles Water Risk Type Higher Drinking Grandmother My Grandmother Diabetes Coconuts Type 2 Diabetes

Author:Anne Wojcicki

“I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when she started cooking a daylong meal was to take a big block of lard from the back of the refrigerator and throw it into the pan. I know how Hispanics buy their food, and it is not always nutritious.”

Knows Firsts Bigs Morning Know How Grew Grew Up Cooking Block Cooks Meals Grandmother Sunday My Grandmother Refrigerators Harlem Sunday Morning Lard

Author:Richard Carmona

“My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.”

Mind Childhood Taught Return Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Elena Roger

“My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup.”

Kids Mother Night Jokes Raised Dinner Cooks Servant Grandmother Sunday Eggs Soup My Grandmother Sunday Night Scrambled Eggs

Author:Katharine Weymouth

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