My Grandmother Quotes - Page 15

• Redken is a brand I've been using since I was a kid, my grandmother introduced it to me, my mother used it, so obviously I was very aware of the brand, so when I heard we were going to meet and potentially do something in the future, I was very excited.

  Crystal Renn

  Mother, Kids, Excited

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Father, Grandmother, Betrayed

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went into the woods with whatever guns and bombs and what not they could get their hands on, and just would fight Nazis, and try to help people escape.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Hero, Grandmother, Fighting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex or singing about environmental destruction or heartbreak, or my grandmother. The subject isn't what the core is about, it's about truthfulness and authenticity and that just comes from my heart and soul.

  Mirah

  Song, Sex, Silly

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I talk about my grandmother a lot, because she's an amazing person - not in some dramatic, distinct, unique way, but anybody who is the daughter of enslaved people and who has found a way to be hopeful and create love and value justice and seek peace is a remarkable person.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Daughter, Grandmother, Unique

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Mom, Grandmother, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was raised by my grandmother. She instilled everything into me. She taught me right from wrong from day one. I remembered everyday, being 4 or 5 years old, and walking to school, she would be like, Raise your right hand and stay on the right side of the street and make sure you do the right thing in school.

  Nick Cannon

  School, Grandmother, Years

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• My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.

  Renata Adler

  Uncles, Cancer, Grandmother

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.62, New York Review of Books

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• I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Mom, Home, Grandmother

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• My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Home, Grandmother, Government

  "Commons debate on Gaza - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.

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• Being a mom, I love to play with my kids and have fun with them, but I also love fashion. My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Mom, Fashion, Fun

  "Exclusive: Kourtney Kardashian On Keeping Up With Three Kids". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 7, 2015.

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• 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.

  Andre Bauer

  Children, Stupid, Silly

  "Starve the Poor" by James Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2010.

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• 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.

  Michelle Shocked

  School, Kids, Grandmother

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• Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Grandmother, Clouds

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• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  Yelawolf

  Mom, Laughter, Grandmother

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• My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.

  Willie Nelson

  Couple, Book, Grandmother

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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• 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.

  Willie Nelson

  Jobs, School, Grandmother

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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• 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.

  Frank Gehry

  Fun, Creativity, Grandmother

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• I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.

  Prince Charles

  Determination, Grandmother, People

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• My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.

  Prince William

  Grandmother, Doe, Care

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• There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.

  George Brandis

  Teacher, Growing Up, Home

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• My grandmother ... came here, not only like so many others because of the streets 'being paved with gold' and all, but because she wanted to leave the place where the streets were paved with people who had not gone to America.

  Roseanne Barr

  Grandmother, America, People

  Roseanne, Roseanne Barr (1989). “Roseanne: my life as a woman”, Harpercollins

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  Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

  Bette Davis

  Nice, Grandmother, Swings

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• My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

  Kevin Gates

  Teacher, Reading, Grandmother

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• As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Girl, Grandmother, Years

  Times Union (Albany), October 16, 2008.

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