My 94-year-old grandmother has always been so inspiring to…

I was seven years old when my grandmother stated teaching me to sew, and she always encouraged me to be creative.

— Ashley Nell Tipton

Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old…

— Hans Christian Andersen

I'm certainly old enough to be a grandmother. I think it's interesting that it should be an issue, that being seen as a grandmother…

— Lesley Sharp

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 love with…

— Tony Lema

“The hearth is desolate. The children, the unconscious children, who once sang and danced in her presence, are gone. She gropes her way, in…

— Frederick Douglass

When I was almost two years old, my grandmother flew from Hongcheon, South Korea, to Flushing, Queens, to take care of me.

— Crystal Hana Kim

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of…

— Spike Lee

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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. I identify…

— Scarlett Johansson

In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every…

— Liya Kebede

In mid-July 2007, after a routine mammogram, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. As cancer diagnoses go, mine wasn't particularly scary. The affected area…

— Virginia Postrel

We need to eradicate these terrorist groups, wherever they are. If we failed to do it, we are just waiting for the next.

— Richard Shelby

It will be impossible for us to eradicate HIV as long as any corner of the world is cut off from the education and…

— Alex Newell

I think Ma Durga will eradicate all that is there and help us rebuild our confidence and our society as a whole. She will…

— Rituparna Sengupta

Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it.

— Kim Cattrall