My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived…

My sister was a twin, and the other baby died in childbirth, and I was three at the time, and I always kind of…

— Scott Turow

“...among the Aztecs, for example, who had a number of heavens to which people's souls would be assigned according to the conditions of their…

— Joseph Campbell

I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting of a…

— Kevin Kwan

“Jennifer," he said, his voice sharp with dawning alarm, "where are you going?" A moment later, Aunt Elinor looked down from the gallery above…

— Judith McNaught

I remember the words of my grandmother who died at 102. I remember my great mother, Grand Brika, who died at the age of…

— John Kani

“She grabs my arm and lifts it toward her face, studying my tattoo, running her fingers over it. “It’s not scratch and sniff, sweetheart.”…

— Tammy Falkner

I talk a lot about the men in my family because my mother died when I was little, and my grandmother died when my…

— Ilhan Omar

Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or…

— Langston Hughes

We started the family Bible after slavery was abolished. My great-grandmother remembered the Bible being started, which meant that she was a slave as…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak…

— Oona Chaplin

Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

— Mike Gordon

When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My next thought…

— Maya Angelou

My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.

— Jami Attenberg

What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political…

— Rahul Gandhi

He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it was like…

— Jon McGregor