My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
“It ain’t necessarily that way, Raymond,” his grandmother had said when he told her this truth. “You been looking at the wrong… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I grew up with my grandmother because my parents were making careers and didn't have much time for me. She was a… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
“So despite all political progress, social advancement, and appearance of acceptance, here was my grandmother speaking the voice of prejudice. It had… — Monica Byrne Copy Share Image
I remember going with my grandmother to the houses she cleaned when I was little, and I would have to stay down… — Dwane Casey Copy Share Image
My grandmother would talk about having bananas at teatime and carrying palm fronds when the monsoon rains came, and I accepted all… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
My grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only… — Saina Nehwal Copy Share Image
“How do you find your mount, Miss de Lacy?” Amy found it a slug. It was clear Rowanford had taken her caution… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
“As I got older, I thought about aging more, as we all do. I came to think of old age as a… — Lai Wen Copy Share Image
My mom would spend a week in jail. She would spend a day in jail here - a week again, a week… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The story of my grandmother is that of a French woman from the provinces who through her perseverance and thirst for knowledge… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
My grandmother, who picked cotton, and my mom, who picked cotton as a child - my grandmother had a work ethic. She… — Derrick Grayson Copy Share Image
The person that inspires me and has inspired me my whole life is my grandmother. She's strong, head of the household, the… — Daniella Alonso Copy Share Image
People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me… — Walter Inglis Anderson Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother, a.k.a. Nanny, wasn't much of a cook. As a kid I remember her making only a handful of things,… — Claire Saffitz Copy Share Image
I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My grandmother told me that to be in fashion, one must be young and passionate about the work. At this moment, every… — Margherita Missoni Copy Share Image
It was really my grandmother who was the biggest influence because she'd talk back to the celebrities and politicians on TV. She… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
In the new world every position of power evacuated by an arrested and beheaded pedophile or bankster will be filled with a… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date,… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
“He was, besides, the child of a doting grandmother, whose too solicitous attention to him soon taught him a sort of diffidence… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It's a great thing to get older and learn. I don't feel bound in any way by how many years I've lived.… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
It's because of women like my grandmother Roberta - women who have lived their lives fearlessly, on their own terms - that… — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom,… — Aaron Sanchez Copy Share Image
Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“Well, she’s told me very little about you,’ her grandmother replied because she’d survived a war, one stillbirth, a daughter who’d got… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
“Dr. Grant was right, the feeling no longer swallows her. Bela lives on its periphery, she takes it in at a distance.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I remember performing one-man reenactments of Miss Saigon' for my grandmother on her fireplace or dancing to Gwen Stefani in our hotel… — Isa Briones Copy Share Image
“These yanks into someone's personal past, that's the kind of history I like. Not wars, but who was your grandmother and what… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion,… — Aerin Lauder Copy Share Image
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
