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“My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that.”

Bigs School Used Picks Hats Grandmother My Grandmother Fuzzy Pick Me Pick Me Up

Author:Adam Sandler

“I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.”

Men Should Left Taught Color Deeds Every Man Witness Grandmother Judged Household My Grandmother Jehovah

Author:Jill Scott

“I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity we ate romantically, by candlelight.”

“My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.”

Mean Stills Conscious Debt Grandmother My Grandmother Extravagant Costco

Author:Jill Scott

“The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!”

Art Given Growing Up Growing Jazz Clubs Supposed To Be Grandmother Silver Take Me Concerts Mum My Grandmother Best Gift Silver Platter

Author:Jill Scott

“My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.”

People Asks Left Stuff Behinds Talking Comedy Changed Taught Impact Accomplishment Grandmother Airplane My Grandmother Left Behind Speak The Truth Peanuts Cleaners Generic

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.”

Littles Running Fall Church Memories White Middle Scary Grandmother Sheets My Grandmother Shouting Baptists

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandfathers or my grandmothers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.”

Book Mother Happened Mets Truth Is Yesterday Phrases Germany Gas Grandmother Holocaust Grandfather Nazi My Grandmother Chamber My Grandfather History Books Nazi Germany Gas Chambers

Author:Gene Simmons

“Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.”

Cancer Breasts Grandmother Survivor My Grandmother Breast Cancer Passed Away

Author:Jessica Simpson

“My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.”

Wanted Beautiful Mother Father Drink China Cups Grandmother My Grandmother Liverpool Very Beautiful Cocoa

Author:Patti Smith

“I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.”

Knows Grandmother Unconditional Love My Grandmother Unconditional Grand Mother

Author:Andre Leon Talley

“The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.”

Moments Doors Childhood Fronts Screens Kitchen Grandmother Chickens Orange My Grandmother County Ham Porch Front Porches Durham Orange County Screen Doors

Author:Andre Leon Talley

“One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.”

Beautiful Next Voice Memories Rooms Singing Seven Grandmother Realising Embarrassed My Grandmother Carried Away

Author:James Taylor

“My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.”

People Grades Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather Industrious Frugal Sixth Grade Barely Getting By

Author:Clarence Thomas

“Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.”

Firsts Persons Beautiful Remember Mother Left Religious First Time Train Intense Grandmother My Grandmother Pilgrimage Religious Person Beautiful Experiences Lourdes

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.”

Hands Strong Memories Clean Grandmother Wet Rolling My Grandmother Veins Clay Soap Onions

Book:This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems

Source: This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems

“My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.”

People Way Want Children Behave Grandmother My Grandmother Old People Eccentric Short Time

Author:Julie Walters

“My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.”

Wells Art Play Parent Perfect Records Connections Radio Piano Grandmother My Grandmother Listening To Music Art And Music

Author:Gerard Way

“I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.”

Moments Black Racism Grandmother Racist Sheep My Grandmother Discomfort Black Sheep Black Sheep Of The Family

Author:Lisa Bonet

“A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.”

Political Politics Doubt Conservative Grandmother My Grandmother When In Doubt Being A Grandmother Grand Mother Anti Conservative

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.”

Moments Remember Lines Space Knowing Awareness Clothes Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.”

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

“Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.”

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

“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them. Each funeral was a funeral for all of us. We lived and died together. All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground. And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt. And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses.”

Knows Way Said Together House Laughing Cry Tears Laughter Lonely Died Goodbye Grandmother Covered Laughed Funeral Dirt My Grandmother Bye Good Bye

Author:Sherman Alexie

“There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.”

Ifs Book Culture Nations Moral Saws Television Finals Contemporary Manifestation Grandmother Abandoned Decline My Grandmother Cathedrals Decadence Steadfast Shrines Deterioration

Book:A Prayer For Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany

“Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.”

Knows Said Suffering Blessing Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Joan Bauer

“All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. "When I get to Heaven", my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, "your grandfather won't even recognize me.”

Source: The Dogs of Babel

“I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.”

Perfect Cold Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Incantation

Source: Incantation

“I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.”

Children Said Enough Months Grandmother Sensible My Grandmother Baths Times Like These

Author:Roald Dahl

“If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.”

Ifs Needs Said Remember Names Letters Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“LINUS: Where are you going for Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown? CHARLIE: My father, my mother, Sally, and I are all going to my grandmothers for dinner. SALLY: Do you want to come too, Linus? We can hold hands under the table. LINUS: BLECH!”

Want Hands Mother Father Tables Dinner Brown Grandmother My Grandmother Charlie Holding Hands Thanksgiving Dinner

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said Brutha automatically. "Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable lady." "She used to give me a thrashing every morning because I would certainly do something to deserve it during the day," said Brutha. "A most complete understanding of the nature of mankind.”

Knows Giving Said Sometimes Used Understanding Morning Mankind Crime Prove Deserve Give Me Punishment Grandmother Every Morning My Grandmother Foresight Formidable

Author:Terry Pratchett

“There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.”

Two Today Remember Tomorrow Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

“He [Ranger] stopped in front of my parents' house, and we both looked to the door. My mother and my grandmother were standing there, watching us. "I'm not sure I feel comfortable about the way your grandma looks at me," Ranger said. [Stephanie] "She wants to see you naked." "I wish you hadn't told me that, babe." "Everyone I know wants to see you naked." "And you?" "Never crossed my mind." I held my breath when I said it, and I hoped God wouldn't stike me down dead for lying.”

Source: Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel

“When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.”

Mind Persons Soul Body Used Heaven Born Perfect Alive Special Fit Lucky Grandmother Mates My Grandmother Mind And Body Soul Mate Perfect Fit

Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.”

Past Terrible Happenings Moved Grandmother My Grandmother Overwhelmed

Author:Alice Hoffman

“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”

Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:The Crow Road

Source: The Crow Road

“A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.”

Knows Fun Relationship Who You Are Scary Grandmother Halloween Grandparent Grandchildren My Grandmother Grandma Grandpa Children And Grandchildren My Grandchildren Grandkids Parents And Grandparents My Grandma Happy Halloween Your Grandmother Grandparents Day Grandchildren And Grandparents Grandparents From Grandchildren Funny Halloween Mother And Grandmother Scary Halloween Great Grandparents Funny Grandparent Great Grandchildren Great Grandmother Halloween Wishes Grandmother And Grandchildren Mother Grandmother Inspirational Halloween Funny Grandmother Being A Grandmother Funny Happy Halloween Christian Halloween Grand Mother Halloween Love Happy Mothers Day Grandmother Funny Grandchildren Halloween And Friends Happy Grandparents Day Cute Halloween Grandmas And Moms Being A Grandma Mothers Day Grandma Halloween Greeting Great Grandpa Halloween Tumblr Halloween Card Halloween Jokes Halloween Party Great Grandma

Author:Erma Bombeck

“My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on Earth. I wish I could say that in that moment in the kitchen she decided to quit drinking, but I now saw that drinking was a part of what made her who she was. If the worst of what she left on Earth was a legacy of inebriated support, it was a good legacy in my book. ~Susie's grandmother, Lynn pgs 315-316”

Ifs Made Book Moments Earth Left Wish Support Saws Worst Drink Decided Drinking Quitting Legacy Kitchen Grandmother That Moment My Grandmother After Death Quit Drinking

Author:Alice Sebold

“Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages”

Feels Character Care Comfortable Pages Treated Grandmother Frightened Fragile My Grandmother Apparitions Literary Characters

Book:My invented country: a memoir

Source: My invented country: a memoir

“so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.”

People Ifs Want Said Might Mother Humanity Party Garden Logic Dresses Rose Dirty Grandmother Relative Gardening My Grandmother Cocktails Cleaners Cocktail Parties Rose Garden Cocktail Dresses

Author:John Irving

“My father is the harbinger of death and destruction. My grandmother the Great Destroyer. My mother is the goddess of the hunt. I think I’ll be okay. (Kat) Yeah, you do have the history of absolute terror and cruelty in your veins. (Sin) Remember that if you ever come between me and my chocolate bar. (Kat)”

Ifs Thinking Remember Mother Father Sin Destruction Okay Absolutes Yeah Terror Bars Cruelty Grandmother Chocolate Goddess My Grandmother Veins Hunts Destroyers Harbinger Chocolate Bars

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”

Ifs Love Mind Said Would Be Water Poor Sweet Daughter Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.”

Ifs Knows Said Ends Stories Mother Night Asks Answers Know How Daughter Fingers Lips Tales Grandmother My Daughter My Grandmother

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“My grandmother is a little Cuban woman who cooks all day and speaks Spanish. Your grandmother watches pay-per-view porn." "She used to watch the Weather Channel, but she said there wasn't enough action." -Ranger and Stephanie”

Littles Said Enough Action Used Speak Views Pay Watches Weather Cooks Grandmother My Grandmother Cuban Rangers Your Grandmother

Book:To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

“I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.”

Knows Done Wanted Mother Girl Left Wish Felt Growing Up Growing Mom Grandmother Know Me My Grandmother My Girl

Author:Carol Burnett

“My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.”

Running Saws Week Average Eight Features Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Carol Burnett

“My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.”

Ifs Knows Looks Mean Mother House Stars Behinds Millions Hollywood Miles Block Grandmother Hanging Out My Grandmother Movie Star Rope Arriving Miles Away Premieres Boulevard

Author:Carol Burnett

“I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn’t be so inclined to jump up and strangle my grandmother.”

Ifs Mother Father Eating Tasks Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Seven Up: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Source: Seven Up: A Stephanie Plum Novel

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