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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.

“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.”

“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

“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

“My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.”

Grandmother Smallest My Grandmother

Author:Koichi Tanaka

“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 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 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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.”

People Thinking Fans Hero Bravery Brave Grandmother My Grandmother Aunt My Hero

Author:George Eads

“You know, my grandmother used to say, 'While I'm down here planning, God's up there laughing.' I guess the thing with most things that are worthwhile is that you can't give up easily. You've got to hang in.”

Knows Giving Used Laughing Plans Giving Up Planning Grandmother Worthwhile My Grandmother

Author:Paul Anka

“My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!”

World Looks Whole Tables Cooks Kitchen Grandmother My Grandmother Tornadoes Best Food

Author:Edie Brickell

“My grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister and my birth was a big disappointment for her. In it there is a message that I understand very well now about the discrimination against the girl child. My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.”

Way Years Wells Children Bigs Girl Parent Born Months Birth Messages Seven Disappointment Discrimination Grandmother Uncles My Grandmother Seven Years Girl Child

Author:Saina Nehwal

“I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table.”

Tables Dancing Coffee Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Taylor Negron

“With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.”

Persons Realizing Known Green Buying Grandmother My Grandmother Green Living Go Green

Author:Joy Bryant

“I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.”

Children Used Culture Cities Watches Growing Up Growing Style New York Fancy Grandmother New York City Exposed My Grandmother Beef Julia Jamaicans

Author:Debi Mazar

“I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.”

Cooking Grandmother My Grandmother Hooked

Author:Debi Mazar

“My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.”

Littles America House Born Growing Up Growing Tales Grandmother Racist My Grandmother Mississippi Alabama Prairie Little House On The Prairie

Author:David Alan Grier

“I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.”

Looks Stills Home Beautiful Simple Fit Benefits Indian Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Kareena Kapoor

“My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.”

Looks Kind Stars Attitude Grandmother My Grandmother Movie Star Theatrical

Author:Parker Posey

“My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'”

Firsts Said Scene Phones Grandmother My Grandmother Phone Calls American Movie

Author:Marina Abramovic

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