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“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 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 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

“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.”

“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 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

“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

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