Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded. — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know. — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded.” — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
I have been singing since the time I was two. My mom says I would sing Gujarati songs with my grandmother when… — Ileana D'Cruz Copy Share Image
My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning. — Harley Viera-Newton Copy Share Image
I had a grandmother who was blind and she taught me to understand sound as an image. — Daniela Vega Copy Share Image
My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a… — Edie Brickell Copy Share Image
My grandmother adopted me for a while, and I was bouncing around a bit. I was always helped by the PTA and… — Bobby Bones Copy Share Image
I actually grew up with people from all over the world. There wasn't enough of a difference to feel different from anybody… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
“What’s the harm in forgetting? What does remembering do? Kugel had read that the war in the Balkans was referred to as… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The hearth is desolate. The children, the unconscious children, who once sang and danced in her presence, are gone. She gropes her… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“Did he kill Grandmother?” I whispered. “Don’t be ridiculous,” Erra’s voice said in my ear. “She is already dead. Besides, your grandmother… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“Grandmother's voice was ice. "They do not. Your mother has been happy all these years, till you began stirring up old memories.… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It wasn't that there weren't menfolk in my grandmother's stories. There were lots of them but they died young or were drifters… — Sue Hubbell Copy Share Image
By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person... — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Some of the best kids I coach were raised by a grandmother who was so firm that they understood. — John Calipari Copy Share Image
My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q.… — Rick Bayless Copy Share Image
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy. — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“My Grandmother says that love is like a bout of diarrhea, it needs neither an invitation nor privacy.” — Dora Okeyo Copy Share Image
One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors. — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
My philosophy is, if I couldn't say it in front of my grandmother, I probably shouldn't say it. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally. — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
“Yummy food, unique attention, playfulness, or loving sternness—these features are often summoned to sweeten one’s memory of a grandmother.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money's worth that night.” — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
