My Grandmother Quotes - Page 3

• My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

  Loni Anderson

  Daughter, Mother, Teacher

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• My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Jobs, Grandmother, Thinking

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

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• My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

  Colin Firth

  Grandmother, Common, Ministers

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• My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

  Cornelia Funke

  Grandmother, Stories, Very Good

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• I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

  John Forbes Nash

  Memories, Grandmother, Play

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• Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

  Dan Rather

  Country, Grandmother, Playing Games

  Dan Rather (1995). “The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist”, Hearst Books

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• Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

  Gene Perret

  Children, Grandmother, Grandparent

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Self

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• 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.

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• As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Children, Grandmother, Ghouls

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.196, Pan Macmillan

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• I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith, God, Christian

  "Maya Angelou discusses her faith, politics, courage ahead of LSU event next week". Interview with Chelsea Brasted, www.nola.com. February 13, 2013.

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• But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: 'Don't. You will regret it. One day you will wake up with no eyebrows and think how stupid you were. Your eyebrows are the most beautiful thing about you.'

  Natalia Vodianova

  Beautiful, Regret, Stupid

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• When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Grandmother, Perfect, Heaven

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• He [Ranger] stopped in front of my parents' house, and we both looked to the door. My mother and my grandmother were standing there, watching us. "I'm not sure I feel comfortable about the way your grandma looks at me," Ranger said. [Stephanie] "She wants to see you naked." "I wish you hadn't told me that, babe." "Everyone I know wants to see you naked." "And you?" "Never crossed my mind." I held my breath when I said it, and I hoped God wouldn't stike me down dead for lying.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Lying, Grandma

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.118, St. Martin's Press

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• My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you. She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Grandmother, Challenges, Passed Away

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• My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Grandmother, Smallest

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• Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said Brutha automatically. "Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable lady." "She used to give me a thrashing every morning because I would certainly do something to deserve it during the day," said Brutha. "A most complete understanding of the nature of mankind.

  Terry Pratchett

  Morning, Grandmother, Punishment

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• My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

  Jan Karon

  Grandmother

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• My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking.

  Stark Young

  Mother, Father, Talking

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• My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Writing, Grandmother

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). “Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition”, p.55, University of Texas Press

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• My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.

  Lucrecia Martel

  Mother, Stories, Oral Tradition

  "'Headless Woman' Director Lucrecia Martel: My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition". Interview with Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. August 20, 2009.

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• I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.

  Alice Hoffman

  Grandmother, Perfect, Cold

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

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• My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

  Anthony Minghella

  Strong, Grandmother, Facts

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• My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Mother, Father, Eight

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