My Grandmother Quotes - Page 17

• My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook, and I would always help her - whether it was cracking eggs or stirring the green beans. It takes me back there.

  Hillary Scott

  Grandmother, Eggs, Grandparent

  "Lady Antebellum Celebrate 'Sweeter Times' on New Album". Interview with Beville Darden, theboot.com. January 26, 2010.

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• I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

  Compay Segundo

  Strong, Grandmother, Waiting

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• Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

  Lionel Richie

  Country, Growing Up, Grandmother

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

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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.

  Mackenzie Phillips

  Wise, Mother, Father

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• My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

  Chris Pine

  Dad, Crazy, Grandmother

  "Pine Was Destined To Act" by wenn.com, November 12, 2010.

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• I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.

  Jordin Sparks

  Running, Grandmother, Bakers

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• Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the Lord Jesus had never entered her heart. Her piety was an act of war against Protestant ascendancy. ...The teachings of the Church did not interest her, except as they were a rebuke to others.

  Mary McCarthy

  Christian, Jesus, War

  "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood". Book by Mary McCarthy, 1957.

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• My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

  Debra Winger

  Children, Grandmother, Long

  "Why I quit Hollywood" by Garth Pearce, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2002.

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• I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

  Robert Herjavec

  Grandmother, Dirt, Poor

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• My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.

  Apolo Ohno

  Father, Grandmother, Japan

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• They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.

  Camara Laye

  Grandma, Heart, Grandmother

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• One day. my kids are gonna be like, 'What do you mean, gay people couldn't get married?' Just like most of my friends are black, and I find it hard to believe that my great-grandmother and even my grandmother couldn't hang out with black kids when they were young.

  Miley Cyrus

  Believe, Mean, Kids

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• My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

  Margaret Mead

  Learning, School, Grandmother

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• I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then, because my grandfather, Senator Gore, was blind, I was required early on to read grown-up books to him, mostly constitutional law and, of course, the Congressional Record. The later continence of my style is a miracle, considering those years of piping the additional remarks of Mr. Borah of Idaho.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Book, Grandmother

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• My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.

  Marian Seldes

  Grandmother, Past, Grandparent

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• My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Daughter, Mother, Art

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• My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

  Jodi Picoult

  Father, Grandmother, Order

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when she started cooking a daylong meal was to take a big block of lard from the back of the refrigerator and throw it into the pan. I know how Hispanics buy their food, and it is not always nutritious.

  Richard Carmona

  Morning, Block, Sunday

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• In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup
  And talk of the old country--mud and boards,
  Poverty,
  The snow falling down and necks of lovers.

  Louis Simpson

  Country, Fall, Grandmother

  Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.182, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

  Parker Posey

  Stars, Attitude, Grandmother

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• AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.

  Aerin Lauder

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Passion

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• My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.

  Sam Abell

  Mother, Teacher, Brother

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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• My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Smart, Grandmother, House

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of course, she was a talkative, jolly, interminably curious woman, who loved people, and who enjoyed the personal details of their lives almost as much as they did themselves.

  Molly Picon

  Grandmother, People, Curiosity

  Molly Picon (1962). “So Laugh A Little”

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• Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Reading, Grandmother

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