I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of… — Adam Clayton Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my… — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink.… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking.… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
“Grandmother taugh me that eventually - whether with a thousand tiny fissures or one swift split - love will break your heart.… — Emily Henry Copy Share Image
In my case, both my grandmothers made a huge impact on my early childhood days. But, as I grew older, people rarely… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
[My grandmother] was the assistant pastor at Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward - my grandmother, Evie Goines. And so my mother… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The only struggle came from me wanting more for my family and feeling like if they had one less individual to take… — Petey Pablo Copy Share Image
Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Surprisingly I've never really stolen anything. One time when I was really young, I was walking down the street, found a GI… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
“As the grandmother, mother and girl said their good-byes and went on their way, Perdu reflected that it was a common misconception… — Nina George Copy Share Image
Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who,… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a limitation on girls. My grandmother was very… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother would sit, before binge-watching existed, and watch 'Poirot' until the cows came home. You couldn't pull her away from… — Billy Howle Copy Share Image
We need to work our level best in this legislative session to help grow Montana's economy, so that grandchildren can stay in… — Brian Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
My grandmother started my interest in secret doors, trying to find things she lost, and we found an old letter in a… — David Linley Copy Share Image
I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father… — John Irving Copy Share Image
My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
Redken is a brand I've been using since I was a kid, my grandmother introduced it to me, my mother used it,… — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image
Though she doesn't remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn’t be so inclined to… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“But no matter,” Grandmother said. “Let’s let small-minded people live within the confines of their small-minded assumptions while the rest of us… — Ingrid Paulson Copy Share Image
My grandmother was divorced, and she had 10 children herself. She never finished high school. She started selling lace on the side… — Ann-Marie Campbell Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking… — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four… — Emmanuelle Seigner Copy Share Image
Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, “Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters.” More likely she'd scold him,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes… — Sophia Myles Copy Share Image
My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
![“[My grandmother] was the assistant pastor at Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward - my grandmother, Evie Goines. And so my mother was doing - I remember when my mother graduated from beauty college, so I was about 5, and so I guess she was about 21. And I just remember being there, taking the…” quote by Mahershala Ali](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/53e/mahershala-ali-6687_assistants_my-grandmother-was-the-assistant-pastor_3196292.jpg)
