What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then,… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that,… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother… — Erika Christensen Copy Share Image
My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a… — Keri Hilson 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
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Then one last thought tugs at me, so I turn back. "So why did you name me Tamsin?" I ask. "You always… — Carolyn MacCullough Copy Share Image
Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
As a child he had grown up without a mother or even a grandmother. He had never really explored emotional relationships or… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and is bewitched… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The moment we walk into the suite, Tommy descends on us. “The Queen’s on the line. On Skype, Your Grace.” Anxiety rings… — Emma Chase 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 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
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
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
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
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
My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
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
I just wanted to say Happy birthday to my late grandmother…i miss you with all my heart and if there was any… — Nikki Marie Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
“Her grandmother experienced them differently, as if they brought her remnants from another time, another life even, which she refused to acknowledge… — Abby Slovin Copy Share Image
My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Years Ago I had the dream To Be Rich so that I could be able to buy everything my Grandmother ever wanted,… — MaddelineMaddie Copy Share Image
Recognize that the issues we face as women advancing in business are issues my grandmother would have loved to have had. And… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
My Grandmother always reminds me that 'to whom much is given, much is required,' and that is how I want to live… — Jaren Jackson, Jr Copy Share Image
