I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience. — Jayne Meadows Copy Share Image
Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try." — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 now, and we don't know where the hell she is. — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother. — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get… — Simeon Strunsky Copy Share Image
I finish the game, and sometimes I don't play very well, and my grandmother calls up to ask why I haven't played… — Bernardo Silva Copy Share Image
If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you… — John Berendt Copy Share Image
But certainly in my grandmother's time - and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie's bathroom was on the side of the… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My grandmother, she passed away at Christmas time. So now, I have this built in sadness, you know, every holiday. 'Cause I'm… — Laura Kightlinger Copy Share Image
Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
My grandmother was my inspiration. She was the person who took me to the theater and encouraged me to act, and she's… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
I am the first one in my family to go to college and I felt a great responsibility when I was at… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“I briefly considered getting a cat, but then decided against it because I didn’t want to be one of those people. You… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother.… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
“Willa had always thought her grandmother was sweet, but she'd been one of those people with invisible thorns, preventing others from getting… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She raised her sad blue eyes to mine. "It's going to be so boring here without you. And I'm going to have… — Shannon Greenland Copy Share Image
Look, I'd take a suggestion from my grandmother if I thought it would improve a film I was writing. — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
My family was very religious, my mom and my grandmother, and that got to me. — Derrick Favors Copy Share Image
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible. — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart. — Camara Laye Copy Share Image
Grandmother a little bit parent,a little bit teacher,and a little bit best friend — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over. — Michel'le Copy Share Image
My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church. — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
“I said, "If we were good always would we be happy always?" "No," said Grandmother. "Then I shall be bad.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters. — Kevin Richardson Copy Share Image
I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with… — Anthony Hamilton Copy Share Image
As a child, I was lucky enough to spend each summer with my grandmother. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If I show you pictures of my grandmother, what you see is these eyes - cat eyes - and high cheekbones. — Jocelyn Wildenstein Copy Share Image
I watched my grandmother and mother suffer with gynecologic cancers, and now I've been through it. — Camille Grammer Copy Share Image
