My Grandmother Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Stevie Nicks

  Grandmother, Clothes, Long

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• In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Writing, Grandmother, White

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

  Jung Chang

  Grandmother, Age, Fifteen

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Cate Blanchett

  Birthday, Mother, Strong

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• 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...'

  Neil Peart

  Prayer, Sleep, Grandmother

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• 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.

  Deborah Pryce

  Mother, Growing Up, Domestic Violence

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

  Andy Hallett

  Lying, Grandmother, Proud

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  John Hume

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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

  Stana Katic

  Eye, Grandmother, Names

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• I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

  Penelope Lively

  Country, Home, Grandmother

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• I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention, ignored. At dark, I kept reading, first on the couch, a bologna sandwich in one hand, then in my bed, by the light of a 60-watt bulb hanging from the ceiling on an orange drop cord. When my mother came in from her job as a maid and unplugged my chandelier, I replayed the story in my head until it was crowded out by dreams. I woke the next morning, smelling biscuits, and reached for the book again.

  Rick Bragg

  Mother, Dream, Morning

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• 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.

  George Eads

  Sports, Dad, Hero

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• I was lucky enough to realize my dream. When I was a little kid in Santa Barbara, sitting on the floor in my grandmother's house, dreaming of maybe one day working for Walt Disney, and to have that dream come true, I think that's pretty remarkable.

  Floyd Norman

  Dream, Kids, Grandmother

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.

  Joy Bryant

  Grandmother, Green, Buying

  "Waste Not, Want Not". www.elle.com. June 21, 2011.

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• My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.

  Kenneth Cranham

  Grandmother, Grandparent, Cooking

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• One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my grandmother. Or my grandfather. As every parent knows, our children are not as fascinated by our fascinating lives as we are.

  William Zinsser

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

  Debi Mazar

  New York, Children, Growing Up

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

  Joan Bauer

  Grandmother, Blessing, Suffering

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• 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

  Alice Sebold

  Drinking, Book, Grandmother

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• My grandfather was a teacher, my grandmother on my mom's side, four of my aunts, my sister-in-law, my best friend. So I've always, my entire life, been surrounded by teachers, and because of that I've had a tremendous respect for what teachers can do, the power that they can have.

  Michelle Rhee

  Mom, Teacher, Grandmother

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  James Patterson

  Grandmother, Two, Today

  James Patterson (2011). “Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas”, p.78, Hachette UK

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

  Jessica Simpson

  Cancer, Grandmother, Survivor

  "Shoes on Sale: Q&A with Jessica Simpson". Interview with Jordan Saniuk, footwearnews.com. October 12, 2009.

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• My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.

  James Thurber

  Wall, Grandmother, Years

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

  Andre Leon Talley

  Grandmother, Unconditional Love, Grand Mother

  "Unconditional Love: Remembering My Grandmother" by Andre Leon Talley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2013.

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• 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.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Grandmother, Doors, Orange

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