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“My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.”

Made Play School Mother Three Evil Father Speak Wise Gold Clubs Charm Grandmother Fascinated Monkeys My Grandmother Lap

Author:Mackenzie Phillips

“My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.”

Thinking Years Made School Jobs Week Died Cooking Grandmother My Grandmother School Lunch Granddaddy

Author:Willie Nelson

“My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.”

Kids School Teach Missing Fool Dancing Raised Vices Grandmother Ballet My Grandmother

Author:Michelle Shocked

“Everybody thinks that you go to Africa and you build a school, or you teach English, or you build a hospital. But actually all you need to do is play football with kids for six months and then after they've trusted you, you tell them about the truth of Aids, and that their grandmother didn't die from witchcraft, she died from Aids. And that's the biggest difference you can make.”

Thinking Needs Play Kids School Dies Differences Teach Football Months Six Died Aids Grandmother Hospitals Trusted Six Months Witchcraft

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.”

Way Bigs Might School Values Hate Class Teach Example Financial Debt Handle Grandmother Literacy My Grandmother Mama Financial Literacy Big Mama

Author:Michelle Singletary

“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.”