I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man.… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
“Listen, lady," he said in a high voice, "if I had of been there I would of known and I wouldn't be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
You need to understand this. We did not think we owned the land. The land was part of us. We didn't even… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
“All my grandfather ever wanted to do was wake up at dawn and watch my grandmother kneel and pray in a village… — Rafeef Ziadah Copy Share Image
I remember the words of my grandmother who died at 102. I remember my great mother, Grand Brika, who died at the… — John Kani Copy Share Image
You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed.… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
“She leaned back, closing her eyes and blowing out a thin wisp of smoke. “He was always a good-looking man. Your eyes… — Angela Misri Copy Share Image
I don't think the entertainment business in general will ever just be okay with how people are. I think we're in a… — Tiffani Thiessen Copy Share Image
Once, when I was 5 years old, a little girl who lived next door to my grandmother dared me to put on… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
“The arm of flesh will fail you," Bridie's grandmother had been fond of reminding her, especially after she'd started dating, bringing home… — Linda Nichols Copy Share Image
at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Your grandma is a magician. Remember that time when you fell off your bicycle and she lifted you up onto the kitchen… — Margrét Helgadóttir Copy Share Image
I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
“Where'd you send her?" "Siberia. Lovely this time of year. A bit remote, I'm afraid. Might take her weeks to find a… — Jaye Wells Copy Share Image
And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“As I prepare to leave she walks with me, half deaf and blind, under several ladders in her living room that balance… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are,… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
The second thing that happened is, DNA analysis is much more sophisticated. All you have to do now is spit in a… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm like a bumper car. When I did an infomercial I was fodder for every TV comedy show. I couldn't get a… — Cher Copy Share Image
My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Lillian tells everyone about her flaws," Daisy said, her brown eyes twinkling. "She's proud of them." "I do have a terrible temper,"… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“[My grandmother] was so humble of heart and so gentle that her tenderness for others and her disregard for herself and her… — Marcel Proust 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
Where's Lori?" he asked when he saw the nurse wasn't there. "She's not avoiding me, is she?" His grandmother slipped off her… — Susan Mallery 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
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
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
There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image