Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My grandmother had a cupboard where she kept her collections and textile samples of all sorts of things. When I had good… — Hubert de Givenchy Copy Share Image
My mother and grandmother created this secret garden where it was OK for boys to play with dolls, and it was OK… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
I'm not a type of grandmother sitting in a rocking chair. I'm a lot in the theater. I'm a lot at concerts.… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of stomach cancer. I… — Eva Vertes Copy Share Image
She died when I was 16 and I just think no history books, nothing is ever going to talk about my grandmother.… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
My grandmother, Amalia Pia Emilia Vignola, whom I called Nonna, brought out the fairy tale in everything. She used to tuck me… — Emilia Wickstead Copy Share Image
The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I’ve started dreaming in Spanish, which has never happened before. I wake up feeling different, like something inside me is changing, something… — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I was uncontrollable. I didn't like school. I was younger than everyone in my class by two years. I had few friends.… — Howie Long Copy Share Image
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in… — Tony Lema Copy Share Image
“My grandmother used to say life was so much easier when you were simple-minded. It’s taken me almost my whole life to… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
I'm at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
My family was into music. My dad was into music down south. My mom and grandmother were into gospel music so there… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to… — Aaron Brookner Copy Share Image
We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
Wouldn't you say that most of us are a reflection of or a reaction to the people who have been closest to… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes,… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
My paternal grandmother, Nanny Hadley, lived in a block of flats in London; you could see the corner post of the Arsenal… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
“Not your girlfriend?” Grandmother guessed. “Well, she should be, you dolt! Don’t let her get away. You need strong women in your… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
"A closed mouth doesn't get fed." Oftentimes, we feel not worthy or we don't want to bother people. We forget to ask… — Kevin Daniels Copy Share Image
[My grandmother] managed her money better than some financial professionals I know. I give credit always to her because she is the… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
![“My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.” quote by Aaron Brookner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/902/aaron-brookner-54373_chill_my-grandmother-has-kept-all-of-his-stuff_1977981.jpg)
![“[My grandmother] managed her money better than some financial professionals I know. I give credit always to her because she is the reason I have my column and national recognition.” quote by Michelle Singletary](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/09a/michelle-singletary-8251_columns_my-grandmother-managed-her-money-better_2880308.jpg)
