My grandmother lives on a farm. And growing up, I assumed…

My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.

— Kirsten Dunst

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My…

— Grace Paley

Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.

— Joan Bauer

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody…

— Robert Herjavec

I saw the Doctor as a kind of lama, one of those long-lived old boys out in Tibet who might be anything up to…

— William Hartnell

“She was in her element walking the concrete sidewalks, listening to the buzz of traffic and the hum of city life. One reason was…

— Richard E. Riegel

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

— Ben Katchor

“Were the beaux less generous over time? Her assets less marketable? If she had lived to be old, would she have resided in a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.”

— Kate Atkinson

“for the first time since I have lived in it, this old house seemed like home.”

— Bram Stoker

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she…

— Peter S. Beagle

The worst country I ever lived in, the old U.S.S.R., was crammed with privileges for the political elite. They had their own hospital, their…

— Peter Hitchens

I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.

— Annette Bening

Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

— John Todd