My Grandmother Quotes - Page 16

• I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.

  Grace Slick

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

  "The Joan Rivers Show", 1990.

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• Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!

  Camille Paglia

  Grandmother, Clothes, Feminist

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food - the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip a Cuban record.

  Gloria Estefan

  Baby, Grandmother, Airports

  "Estefan Performs Songs From New Album" by Caitlin Johnson, www.cbsnews.com. August 27, 2007.

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• 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.

  Quang Nhuong Huynh

  Grandmother, Garden, Reality

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• My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'

  Prince William

  Queens, Grandmother, Men

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• I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am I supposed to do?' and she said, 'Just wait, we're going inside to greet the light.' I liked that—this idea to go inside to find that light within, literally as well as figuratively.

  James Turrell

  Grandmother, Light, Ideas

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• My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Wall, Husband, Grandmother

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• 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.

  Corey Taylor

  Mother, Giving Up, Writing

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• Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

  Hari Kunzru

  Beautiful, Book, Grandmother

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• My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Party, Grandmother, People

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• My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Home, Grandmother, Church

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• And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Real, Inspiration, Grandmother

  2006 Oscar Award Acceptance Address for Best Actress, delivered 5 March 2006

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• I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

  Alan Bradley

  Book, Grandmother, Great Love

  "Book Talk: Alan Bradley on young sleuths and TV series". Interview with Noreen O'Donnell, www.reuters.com. March 8, 2013.

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• My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall.

  Petra Stunt

  Grandmother, Vegetables, Fruit

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• My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

  Alan Bradley

  Husband, Grandmother, Air

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• My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

  Alexis Denisof

  Mother, New York, Grandfather

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow.

  Julian Castro

  Grandmother, Opportunity, Generations

  Julian Castro's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

  Bob Balaban

  Children, Dad, Grandmother

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.

  Victoria Azarenka

  Grandmother, Inspire, Persons

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• I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.

  Teena Marie

  Mother, Men, Different

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• 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.

  Bob Beamon

  Sports, Real, Responsibility

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• In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

  Tea Obreht

  Mother, Writing, Careers

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• My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.

  Muddy Waters

  Grandmother, Church, Should

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• I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

  Chris Ware

  Children, Grandmother, People

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• My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

  Gary Snyder

  Grandmother, Garden, Hands

  Gary Snyder (1992). “No nature: new and selected poems”, Pantheon

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