My grandmother always put a penny in my bag. I don't know if it was an old-fashioned thing or a good-luck thing,… — Leslie Grossman Copy Share Image
My grandmother was kind, but she knew what she wanted and she wasn't afraid to give a command. When, eventually, I ran… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them.… — Cote de Pablo Copy Share Image
“How is your grandmother?” “She told Cambria to let me know she was cutting me out of her will if I didn’t… — Vi Keeland Copy Share Image
On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka 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
so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail… — John Irving Copy Share Image
We live in a society now where it's very rare for your parents to be around. It used to be like, your… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
“His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of people in this world, she… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Sometimes we adopt certain beliefs when we're children and use them automatically when we become adults, without ever checking them out against… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
“If God had let me come at once, as I prayed, then everything would have been different, I should only have had… — Johanna Spyri Copy Share Image
The police [in South Africa] would check in on you randomly. And they would come into the house, and they would look… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
My father was only born something like 30 years after the Civil War ended, 35 or 40. He was born closer to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe. I… — Daphne du Maurier 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 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
Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Raz i’Syul,” she explained. “The Grandmother said in the old desert tongue it means ‘Child of the Sun.’ It’s what a lot… — Bryce O'Connor Copy Share Image
Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember my grandmother as a… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It?… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
“I want to love like my grandmother, who loved a woman like Joseph loved Mary. Someone so imperfect, so human, brave enough… — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image
My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and… — Erika Christensen Copy Share Image
I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I don't feel worthy but then I look at my reflection and see my daughter, mother and grandmother who are worthy… — Alexandra Elle Copy Share Image
I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
At one time, when I was eight years old, my mother and father, my brother and my sisters - we had to… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
My grandma's name was Bernice Salmon - like the fish. When I was growing up, she was my rock. My mom was… — Jade Cargill Copy Share Image
My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image