“Even though I'd never been in love, I knew what it was like to be in a feeling, to be not just… — John Green Copy Share Image
It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
“My grandmother say you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas. A hard head makes a soft behind. Life is… — Cupcake Brown Copy Share Image
Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
My grandmother was my inspiration. She was the person who took me to the theater and encouraged me to act, and she's… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
My mom could have been a CEO of any company. She was very organized, very strict. She showed us the importance of… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
“She is waiting for me when I step outside of school at the end of the day, her sturdy frame standing by… — Alecia Whitaker Copy Share Image
“How did the name misfit even come about?" Sam asked. "It's so... dumb." Willo laughed. "Well, it's really not," she said. "We… — Viola Shipman Copy Share Image
My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day;… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
“Raised to believe that her life would be, as her great-grandmother's was said to have been, one ceaseless round of fixed and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity. Marc and I want to make sure we're doing… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
But certainly in my grandmother's time - and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie's bathroom was on the side of the… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you… — John Berendt Copy Share Image
I finish the game, and sometimes I don't play very well, and my grandmother calls up to ask why I haven't played… — Bernardo Silva Copy Share Image
The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get… — Simeon Strunsky Copy Share Image
My grandmother, she passed away at Christmas time. So now, I have this built in sadness, you know, every holiday. 'Cause I'm… — Laura Kightlinger Copy Share Image
Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
I embrace the criticism, because ultimately (it means) the masses have seen it [my movie]. I embrace it for my father's story,… — Lee Daniels Copy Share Image
My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“My grandmother was married for fifty-two years, until my grandfather died. She used to say that a bad marriage was one that… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Is he Catholic?" her grandmother asked on the way out. He's a drug dealer -- so if he is religious, he's got… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
I seriously love to cook ... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid I used to help her make handmade… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
My grandmother used to say before you moan about the muck on someone else's glasses make sure you're not on about the… — John Hegley Copy Share Image
The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It… — Joan Crawford Copy Share Image
I lived with my grandmother for a year when I was very young, and even to this day, when I tell my… — Kamaru Usman Copy Share Image
Despite having an Indian grandmother and a Nepalese father, I have never been to India before. I have been to Nepal a… — Anish Giri Copy Share Image
We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting… — Anne Heche Copy Share Image
But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image