I credit my grandmother for my sense of style. She was known for wearing bright, outrageous things because it made people happy… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
I definitely think religion is responsible for a lot of the evils of the world. I mean that's not really in debate.… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy… — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
“Well," she said, "how can I be sure there aren't invisible people in the world? Scientists didn't believe in the mountain gorilla… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94,… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius,… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The many varieties and wonderful colors of the modern dahlia make it a totally different flower from the one our grandmothers knew.… — Helena Rutherfurd Ely Copy Share Image
“You see, my father believed he had a gift. He felt that he was able to ascertain a person's entire future based… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
“I do not wish to sit for a portrait, Mr. Cunningham," the elder Miss Westcott informed him. "I will do so only… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“My mother was in the kitchen ironing. Physically she’s a younger version of my Grandma Mazur, and physically I’m a younger version… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“I never expected to feel this way about someone." She stared at me, eyes wide nad lips parted as if she couldn't… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
You think Bernadette Maguire killed him?” “Uh… no. She’s, like I said, she’s old.” “Old people can kill people too.” “I know,… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because… — Deborah Pryce Copy Share Image
I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were… — Le1f Copy Share Image
“Nonsense. Your grandmother was headstrong and brilliant and took the ton by storm. I'm told she spent her first season breaking a… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after… — John Green Copy Share Image
Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“What came to me then was the voice of my paternal grandmother. She had told me once that every time Bego or… — Ismet Prcic Copy Share Image
I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Some of her earliest memories were of her grandmother's house, of a place that smelled like cinnamon and old books. The house… — Emily Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a huge influence on me. She allowed me to be my flamboyant self as a kid. She babysat me;… — Sarah Bolger Copy Share Image
“Luella had been Lou's favorite grandma. Some grandmas took their grandchildren to parks, or bought them books and dolls, or shared their… — Amy E. Reichert Copy Share Image
“She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with the chance to live my life again. I have suffered so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
“Painfully, I often wonder how my grandmother tolerated me; even I can’t tolerate myself many times, No one ever in my total… — Manjula Jyothiprakash Copy Share Image
I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
