Oprah Winfrey Quotes About Grandmothers

Quotes about: Grandmothers

• I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Spiritual, Religious, Grandmother

  Source: www.aarp.org

• 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.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Grandmother, Clothes, Knowing

  "Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, Interviews Oprah Winfrey Live Online". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.

• I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived. 'I go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand,' Maya Angelou proclaimed in her poem 'Our Grandmothers.' When I move through the world, I bring all my history with me-all the people who paved the way for me are part of who I am.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Brother, Moving

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.48, Macmillan

• My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with my mother - whom I really did not know - who had moved to Milwaukee. Something inside myself knew that I was never going to see my grandmother again - I would be wasting my time to live in that space of wanting that.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mother, Space, Would Be

  Source: www.aarp.org

• Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Grandmother, House, Littles

  Source: www.oprah.com

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