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“I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.”

Years Bigs Born Months Birth Seven Disappointment Grandmother My Grandmother Seven Years

Author:Saina Nehwal

“As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.”

Children Raised Kitchen Grandmother My Grandmother Cousin My Cousin

Author:Azzedine Alaia

“I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin.”

Thinking Kind Said Moments Seems Might Notes Surface Contemporary Description Grandmother Mail My Grandmother Diaries Cumulative Contemporary Life

Author:Sue Miller

“AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.”

Hard Beautiful Passion Courses Quality Style Hard Work All Things Grandmother My Grandmother Saturated Work Family

Author:Aerin Lauder

“My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.”

School Mother Father Parent Rooms Class Teacher Taught Brother Beloved Grandmother Latin My Grandmother Sociology Librarian Geography County School Teachers Knobs Precursor Geography Teachers

Author:Sam Abell

“My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome.”

House Smart Grandmother Opera My Grandmother Soap Soap Operas Just Realized

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.”

Source: Not Under Forty

“Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.”

Knows Want Feels Taste Details Our Family Grandmother

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

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

“The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the child's falling. This often makes them forget to comment on other aspects of the child's development, like why he is not yet talking or is still wearing diapers. Some grandmothers will spend an entire meal peering beneath the table and saying, "Is that thing steady?" rather than, "Have you had a doctor look at that left hand?”

Looks Children Stills Hands Fall Left Forget Talking Figures Development Aspect Doctors Tables Constant Best Things Meals Seats Grandmother Comment Steady Sassy Diapers Left Hand

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.”

Thinking Looks Kind Stills Tree Wind Kings Forests Chairs Grandmother Old Trees Rocking Chairs Dozing

Author:Billy Wilder

“Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another.”

Source: History of woman suffrage

“Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the Lord Jesus had never entered her heart. Her piety was an act of war against Protestant ascendancy. ...The teachings of the Church did not interest her, except as they were a rebuke to others.”

Heart War Feelings Christian Jesus Interest Church Christianity Lord Teaching Mercy Grandmother Aggressive Traits Dominant My Grandmother Piety Protestants Rebuke Ascendancy

Author:Mary McCarthy

“The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.”

“In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers.”

Country Fall House Poverty Lovers Eating Down And Snow Boards Necks Grandmother Chickens Soup Mud My Grandmother Falling Down Snow Falling Chicken Soup

Book:The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001

Source: The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001

“It's the job of grandmothers to interfere.”

Jobs Grandmother Interfere

Author:Lady Violet

“The beginning of my love for football goes back to when I was seven years old. I was spending time with my grandmother, Caletha Vick. I never knew anything about the game until one Sunday afternoon when she turned on the television because the Redskins were playing. They were my Uncle Casey's favorite team-and my grandmother's favorite too. After watching the game with them, I was hooked.”

Years Games Team Television Football Seven Spending Nfl Grandmother Sunday Afternoon Uncles My Grandmother Seven Years Hooked Spending Time Sunday Afternoons Redskins

Author:Michael Vick

“During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.”

Father Parent Sound Convinced California Grandmother Stubborn My Grandmother Deaf Responding Deafness Being Stubborn Not Responding

Author:Marlee Matlin

“My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on Monday morning, because the Sabbath was a day of rest--a practice that made my paternal grandfather, the village atheist, as mad as fire. Nevertheless, he willed five quid to the minister, just to be on the safe side.”

Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

“My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.”

Years Firsts Long Two Bigs Mother White Pieces Feet Stones Twenties Bounds Rounds China Wounds Crush Grandmother Two Years Sole Inward Toes My Grandmother Arches Bending Two Year Olds

Author:Jung Chang

“I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and dont want to look like grandmothers.”

Want Looks Wanted Careers Clothes Sexy Grandmother

Author:Joseph Altuzarra

“I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.”

Ifs Thinking Done Black Drug Cooking Raised Grandmother Southern My Grandmother Coke Pancakes Southern Women

Author:Paul Mooney

“The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.”

Firsts Able Order Black White Color Tvs Moon Great Things Grandmother Black And White My Grandmother Landing Moon Landing

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts.”

Knows Children Stories Together Young Married Great Things Sat Grandmother Tied Uncles Aunt Getting Married Great Grandmother

Author:Tony Danza

“In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.”

Men Born Food Changed Grew Mom Grew Up Cooking My Mom Cooks Kitchen Restaurants Grandmother My Grandmother Sweden Ethiopia

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“I was always a person on my mother's hip in the kitchen. My mom really wanted her kids at her side as much as possible, and she worked in restaurants for over fifty years. And my grandfather had ten children, and he grew and prepared most of the food. My grandmother, on my mother's side, was the family seamstress and the baker. So my mom, the eldest child, was always in the kitchen with my grandpa and I was always in the production and restaurant kitchens and our own kitchen with my mom. And it's just something that has always spoken to me.”

“If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.”

Ifs Men Want Grandmother

Author:Victor Hugo

“Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.”

Mother Myth Mythology Grandmother

Author:Zsuzsanna Budapest

“Those people on the other side, they will answer any question about climate change by saying, 'I’m not a scientist.' Well, I’m not a scientist either. I’m just a grandmother with two eyes and a brain.”

People Wells Two Eye Sides Answers Brain Scientist Climate Climate Change Grandmother

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays. My grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength.”

Belief Prayer Fields Praying Picks Everyday Devotion Grandmother Sunday Trust In God Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather Cotton Supper

Author:Rosa Parks

“My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.”

People Care Poet Baby Medicine Fearless Grandmother Chemistry Mexico Songwriters My Grandmother Energetic Delivering 1930s Arranged Marriage

Author:Salma Hayek

“My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.”

Firsts Growing Up Growing Instruments Grandmother Heritage My Grandmother Louisiana Accordions Cajuns

Author:Hunter Hayes

“Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.”

Kind Done Growing Up Growing Happenings Instruments Grandmother Heritage Routes My Grandmother Louisiana Accordions Cajuns

Author:Hunter Hayes

“My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.”

World Children Disappear Grandmother Significance Fascinated Apartment My Grandmother

Author:Arnon Goldfinger

“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.”

Kind Enough School Young Asks Summer Daughter Gold Mathematics Sells Brave Seven Grandmother Poetry Is My Daughter Honey My Grandmother Fleas Young And Old Flea Markets

Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother.”

Guy Class Dad Grandmother Clown Funny Guy Funny Grandmother Funny Dad Extremely Funny

Author:Charlie Day

“I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.”

I Can Given Daughter Grandmother My Daughter

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“I embrace the criticism, because ultimately (it means) the masses have seen it [my movie]. I embrace it for my father's story, for my mother's story, for my auntie, for my grandmother, who all got their teeth knocked out so I could be [where I am].”

Mean Stories Mother Father Mass Criticism Embrace Teeth Grandmother My Grandmother Auntie

Author:Lee Daniels

“Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.”

Thinking Knows World Want Stills Young Mother Girl Poor Millions Know How Percent Slave Feminist Sexy Grandmother Young Women Poorest Mother And Grandmother

Author:Isabel Allende

“I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my parents worked. I obviously wanted to learn to play. And so she asked if she could teach me, and my mother said don't you think she's too young. My grandmother apparently said no. So I could read music before I could read, and I really don't remember learning to read music. So for me it's like a native language. When I look at a sheet of music, it just makes sense.”

“I found a great deal of relief and excitement watching comics when I was very young. My grandmother was very into them and so was my grandfather. They had a profound effect on me, so I just found myself watching comedians on the after-school shows: Merv Griffin and that kind of stuff.”

Kind Shows School Young Found Stuff Deals Effects Profound Comedian Excitement Relief Grandmother Grandfather Show Me My Grandmother My Grandfather After School

Author:Marc Maron

“Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go of it, and it went up into the sky and just kept going and going. I completely flipped out, because I didn't understand why.”

Has Beens Sky Letting Go Red Grandmother Yards My Grandmother Brooklyn Balloons Flipped

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“My grandmother lives on a farm. And growing up, I assumed that the animals that I was eating and the animals that I was wearing all came from farms like my grandmother's. They all had names, they were all smothered with love, and they all lived to be very old.”

Names Animal Growing Up Growing Eating Grandmother Farms My Grandmother

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.”

Ifs Writing Said Able Reader Importance Grandmother Literacy My Grandmother

Author:Kevin Gates

“My mother is the one who taught me to be a lady by her actions. I observed the way that she dressed and the way that she carried herself. And both my grandmothers, they were women of very modest means. But they were also ladies.”

Way Mean Action Mother Taught Grandmother Modest My Grandmother

Author:Michele Bachmann

“We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.”

People Want Writing Mother Worry Proud Likes Grandmother Muse Be Proud My Grandmother Proud Of Me

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Being an impatient person, I wanted to do what my grandmother said: "Do as much as you can as fast as you can; be as productive as possible." But you must be patient. So I have struggled to balance patience with being an impatient person, and trying to find a happy medium.”

Trying Persons Said Wanted Balance Patient Mediums Productive Grandmother My Grandmother Be Patient Impatient

Author:Farrah Gray

“I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.”

Kids Areas Grandmother Grandchildren My Grandmother Jersey Just Believe Tight Family

Author:Lauryn Hill

“I decided I was gonna call myself cause Gucci Mane cause that was my father's name. His nickname was Gucci Mane. That's what my grandmother called my father. People would call me Gucci Mane every now and then, but honestly, that was his name.”

People Father Names Causes Decided Honestly Grandmother Call Me Now And Then My Grandmother Nicknames Gucci

Author:Gucci Mane

“I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.”

World Book Used Values Comfort Exciting Plenty Grandmother My Grandmother Shortage Confronting Narcotics

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.”

Trying Years Littles Play Faces Glasses Teeth Indian Classic Grandmother Scare Grandfather Grandparent My Grandmother My Grandfather Stairs Powder

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

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