My Grandmother Quotes - Page 4

• I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin.

  Sue Miller

  Grandmother, Thinking, Diaries

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• I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

  Jayne Meadows

  Mother, Dog, Writing

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• My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Grandmother, Parent, Inspire

  "Chelsea's fans", pagesix.com. September 21, 2011.

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• LINUS: Where are you going for Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown? CHARLIE: My father, my mother, Sally, and I are all going to my grandmothers for dinner. SALLY: Do you want to come too, Linus? We can hold hands under the table. LINUS: BLECH!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Mother, Father, Hands

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• If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Grandmother, Names, Needs

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• I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Grandmother, Times Like These

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• Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood

  N. Scott Momaday

  Memories, Grandmother, Blood

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press

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• I believe in things I can count on, like beer and ESPN and my grandmother's pecan pie.

  Justin Timberlake

  Believe, Beer, Grandmother

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• My Grandmother wouldn't even speak the word Democrat if there were children in the room, she'd say Bastards instead.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Grandmother, Rooms

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

  Julie Walters

  Children, Grandmother, People

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• One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

  James Taylor

  Beautiful, Memories, Grandmother

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

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• Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

  Joy Bryant

  Grandmother, Trying, Used

  "Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 17, 2015.

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• Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.

  Hunter Hayes

  Growing Up, Grandmother, Louisiana

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• My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

  Salma Hayek

  Baby, Grandmother, Medicine

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• My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.

  Gerard Way

  Art, Grandmother, Play

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• My grandmother was extremely smart when it came to money, but she also worried a lot about not having enough. So it's with her in mind that I aim to explain complicated financial things so the folks like her won't be afraid to make certain money moves.

  Michelle Singletary

  Smart, Moving, Grandmother

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. "When I get to Heaven", my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, "your grandfather won't even recognize me.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Children, Father, Grandmother

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.

  John Irving

  Book, Grandmother, Finals

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.275, Random House

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• I don't think the entertainment business in general will ever just be okay with how people are. I think we're in a business that critiques everything we do, and you kind of just take it with a grain of salt. I look at my grandmother, and I think she's aged beautifully, so I hope that I could be a smidgen of how she's aged. There's nothing you can do. All you can do is take of yourself and do the things that make you feel good and make you healthy and age appropriately, but there's always going to be people out there are going to say something, and there's nothing you can do about it.

  Tiffani Thiessen

  Grandmother, Thinking, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94, which is a very long life in Cambodia, I saw how important it was that she was in a community with my sisters, brothers and all grandchildren were so involved in her life. I liked that experience so much more than visiting my sister-in-law's grandparents in a nursing home. It's about looking at a community through your window versus being part of a community that's alive, that is youthful and old and hungry and smelly and loud, where everything is vibrant and colorful.

  Loung Ung

  Brother, Home, Grandmother

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I learned from my grandmother, because we were cooking a lot for the farm. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

  Daniel Boulud

  Grandmother, Cooking

  "The Daniel Boulud Experience". Interview with Rachel Small, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2013.

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• My favorite thing is when I go back and my mother cooks for me. Because it just throws me back the same flavor. And I try to modify things: I say, "Why don't you do this and that?" My mother is older, but she cooks a lot, and she doesn't want to change anything. She's a very good cook, and my grandmother was an amazing cook.

  Daniel Boulud

  Mother, Trying, My Favorite

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

  Noel Fielding

  Children, Grandmother, Garden

  "The Weird World of Noel Fielding". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2016.

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• I don't think I'm more politically-based as much as socially-based. My grandmother died on February 29th, and she kept all of my magazine and newspaper scraps, every interview. I've been in the newspapers since I was about 15 - not for rapping, but for real substantive stuff I was doing in the community, organizing around gang violence in the schools. So I had already made my grandma proud before I was on TV. I've always been who I am.

  Killer Mike

  Real, Rap, Grandma

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

  Mike Gordon

  Girlfriend, Grandmother, Years

  Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.

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