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“My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.”

“My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.”

Ifs Knows Past Remember Used Repeats Each Day Grandmother Our Past Grandparent My Grandmother Your Past True You

Author:Marian Seldes

“I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then, because my grandfather, Senator Gore, was blind, I was required early on to read grown-up books to him, mostly constitutional law and, of course, the Congressional Record. The later continence of my style is a miracle, considering those years of piping the additional remarks of Mr. Borah of Idaho.”

“Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.”

“As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.”

World Children House Knowing Grandmother Not Knowing My Grandmother Ghouls

Book:Literary Occasions: Essays

Source: Literary Occasions: Essays

“One day. my kids are gonna be like, 'What do you mean, gay people couldn't get married?' Just like most of my friends are black, and I find it hard to believe that my great-grandmother and even my grandmother couldn't hang out with black kids when they were young.”

People Believe Mean Hard Kids Young Black Gay One Day Married My Friends Grandmother Hanging Out My Grandmother Gay People Hard To Believe Great Grandmother

Author:Miley Cyrus

“Through my grandmother's eyes, I can see more clearly the way things used to be, the way things ought to be, and most important of all, the way things really are.”

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Author:Ed Cunningham

“I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.”

Knows Seems Able Difficult Guitar Noise Convince Grandmother Do You Know My Grandmother

Author:Eric Clapton

“My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.”

“I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.”

Source: Bitter Sweet

“They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.”

Heart My Heart Grandmother Grandparent My Grandmother Grandma Grandpa Pampered

Author:Camara Laye

“It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.”

Long Reality Faces Used House Fields Long Time Garden Grandmother Grandparent My Grandmother Passed Away

Author:Quang Nhuong Huynh

“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better.”

“Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Years Kind Play Artist Fun Creativity Creative Intuition Grandmother Willingness Where You Are Crucial My Grandmother Creative People Where You Are Going

Author:Frank Gehry

“I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'”

Helping Stories Happens Life Is Differences Making A Difference Help Me Grandmother Academic My Grandmother Adages Telling Stories Nonprofits Academic Work

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.”

Made Home Mother Father Four Daughter Died Eight Grandmother Shelter Foxes My Grandmother Our Daughter Father Died

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over to my grandmother, who I lived with while I went to school. I was clean and finally starting to figure myself out. I can only say that now without laughing. I was still very out of my own place, and I didn't even know what that place was. All I knew was that I could write music, that I had no idea what that could mean and that I was still surrounded by people I couldn't relate to. I hadn't found my tribe yet.”

“I was lucky. My grandmother stepped up for me and said she would take responsibility for me and a compassionate juvenile judge took a chance and gave me one. They were getting ready to send me away to do real time, but they sent me instead to a juvenile alternative day school. And I guess that was the beginning of my turnaround.”

Said Real School Sports Chance Responsibility Ready Judging Lucky Alternatives Grandmother Hockey Compassionate My Grandmother Taking Responsibility Juvenile Turnaround

Author:Bob Beamon

“I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.”

Blame Actresses Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Joan Collins

“My grandmother spoiled my father rotten and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.”

“My grandmother is basically blind, but she can make out the lighter parts, like my skin and hair. She says, 'I can see you, because you have no pants on.' So I'll continue to wear no pants so that my grandma can see me.”

I Can Hair Skins Blind Grandmother Pants My Grandmother Grandma Lighters Make Out My Grandma

Author:Lady Gaga

“I seriously love to cook ... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid, I used to help her make handmade pasta, cavatelli and ravioli. It was one of my favorite things to do. I love the idea of making whatever is in the fridge into something.”

Ideas Helping Kids Used My Favorite Cooks Things To Do Grandmother My Grandmother Favorites Things Pasta Fridges Handmade

Author:Bradley Cooper

“I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play -- she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.”

Years Kind Play Watches Pieces Doors Band Raised Seven Eight Bars Kitchen Grandmother Bottles My Grandmother

Author:Toby Keith

“Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people used to define that. Is black your experience or the color of your skin? My experience is as a Mexican immigrant, more so than someone like George Lopez. He's from California. But he'll be treated as an immigrant. I am an outsider. My abuelita, my grandmother, didn't speak English. My whole family on my dad's side is in Mexico. I won't ever be called that or treated that way, but it was my experience.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer's Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It's been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.”

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Author:Carey Mulligan

“If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.”

Ifs Years Helping Shows Machines Meals Grandmother Apartment My Grandmother Time Machine

Author:Mo Rocca

“My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. Thats my aspiration.”

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Author:Jeremy Miller

“I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.”

Song Speak Hours Taught Let Me Remembered Grandmother Italian Professors My Grandmother

Author:Connie Francis

“Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life...It would be cliché to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.”

People Thinking Would Be Form Sports Fans Color Hero Dad Brave My Dad Size Grandmother My Grandmother Aunt My Hero

Author:George Eads

“I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.”

Eye Evil Names Protect Grandmother Bad Things My Grandmother Protect You Evil Eye

Author:Stana Katic

“I've always liked long, flowing clothes,...I used to rummage around in my grandmother's trunks trying to find them. I love the feeling of chiffon and lace.”

Trying Long Feelings Used Clothes Grandmother My Grandmother Trunks Lace

Author:Stevie Nicks

“I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.”

House Hollywood Hills Grandmother My Grandmother Harlem Hollywood Hills

Author:Sammy Davis, Jr.

“So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write”

Thinking Writing Long Play House Hours Sitting Eight Beach Relax Grandmother Desks My Grandmother Loops Long Beach

Author:George Lopez

“I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do.”

Knows Lying Proud Convinced Grandmother Know Me Be Proud My Grandmother

Author:Andy Hallett

“I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.”

Children Age Mother Three Strong Poor Growing Up Growing Generations Brother Grew Grew Up Raised Enormous Birthday Grandmother Household My Grandmother 60th Birthday

Author:Cate Blanchett

“Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.”

Looks Children Mother Father Bits Parent Interesting Growing Up Growing Grandmother My Grandmother Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:John Hume

“You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement.”

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Author:Amitav Ghosh

“I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!”

People Want Looks Stories Pages Grandmother Good People My Grandmother

Book:Last Tales

Source: Last Tales

“My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.”

Years Young Father Died Raised Christmas Brown Grandmother Chickens My Grandmother Emma Father Died My Father Died

Author:George Weah

“My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.”

Might Turns Empathy Grandmother Storyteller My Grandmother Preview

Author:Chris Ware

“Valentine's day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine's Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but now everyone's like 'Oh, happy valentine's day!' I even got a Valentine's Day card from my grandmother. How ridiculous is that? We stopped having sex years ago!”

“We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.”

“Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.”

Source: Feeding the Eagles: Short Stories

“It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.”

“My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.”

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Author:Cassandra Wilson

“My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.”

Way Looks Kind Persons Made Book Known Growing Style New York Guides Despite Grandmother Pool My Grandmother Wire Noodles Hangers Parenting Styles

Author:Sloane Crosley

“My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.”

Giving Children Stills Hard Whole Mother Work Chance Brother Whole Life Cooks My Brother Grandmother My Grandmother Maids Only Child Babysitter Scraping Chances In Life

Author:Julian Castro

“I've got a lot of experience with anorexia - my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it. I know it's not something to be taken lightly and I don't.”

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Author:Keira Knightley

“Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible way he'd abused my grandmother and my mother. He did things like shave my grandmother's head and lock her in a closet. With my mother's help, my grandmother finally left him.”

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Author:Deborah Pryce

“More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'”

Soul Prayer Sleep Lord Praying Bed Lays My Soul Grandmother My Grandmother I Pray Paraphrase

Author:Neil Peart

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