Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up… — John Hume Copy Share Image
For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
If a studio is going to offer me the opportunity to invite my mother and grandmother and all my friends to visit… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on… — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people… — Andrea Navedo Copy Share Image
On the way to the delivery room, I almost changed my mind about having a baby. I wouldn't have found it so… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The boat was vacuum-packed with Albanians, four generations to a family: great-grandmother, air-dried like a chilli pepper, deep red skin and a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Her grandmother had a life, a life Claire hadn't known about or even imagined. She had tried so hard to know everything… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of… — John Irving Copy Share Image
One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister… — Carla Hall Copy Share Image
“Do you do this too sometimes?” the grandmother suddenly asked. “Check on old photos to see whether the faces of the deceased… — Nina George Copy Share Image
Being an impatient person, I wanted to do what my grandmother said: "Do as much as you can as fast as you… — Farrah Gray Copy Share Image
For me it's just so exciting to have a daughter because I do think she will have even more opportunities than I… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
I had my American family and I had my English family and my English grandmother was very interested in me performing and… — Florence And The Machine Copy Share Image
I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
When my father came out to his mom, my grandmother said, 'You waited for your father to die; why couldn't you have… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Your grandmother once told me that the problems we face in life are windows, from which we can view the beauty of… — Peggy M. McAloon Copy Share Image
I don't think people should be fed mesclun salad and chicken breast. My grandmother would serve grits and oxtail stew at a… — Marjorie Gubelmann Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It?… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and… — Erika Christensen Copy Share Image
Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
“I want to love like my grandmother, who loved a woman like Joseph loved Mary. Someone so imperfect, so human, brave enough… — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image
Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Raz i’Syul,” she explained. “The Grandmother said in the old desert tongue it means ‘Child of the Sun.’ It’s what a lot… — Bryce O'Connor Copy Share Image
I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember my grandmother as a… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden… — Florence King Copy Share Image
