I look at my grandmother, and she has this grace and class about her. When she walks into a room and sits… — Brie Bella Copy Share Image
Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
What was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother.… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“One day the grandmother presented the little girl with a red velvet riding hood; and as it fitted her very well, she… — the grimm brothers Copy Share Image
Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them… — Anonymous 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
When I was a kid, I loved really loud things. My grandmother and I went to the Fulton Mall, and I bought… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she'd come over and pick us boys up, and we… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
It's right around this time that her Grandmother Hall dies. And Eleanor Roosevelt is responsible for making all the funeral arrangements. And… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Don't be impertinent, girl. I'm your elder and don't you forget it!" "Since I'm looking right at you I'm not likely to… — Jacqueline M. Battisti Copy Share Image
I watched a ton of TV because I was raised by a single mom and spent a lot of time with my… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10… — Patrick Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
The best advice I've heard was from a lady in her 80s at my grandmother's 90th birthday. I was telling her how… — Davina McCall Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
[In tribute to his grandmother] She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
My grandmother used to have horses, so she'd get the sled out, have all us kids ride. We'd play music together. My… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
It seems unlikely that a 70-something-year-old grandmother could be one of Britain's most iconic celebrities, but Mary Berry defies all expectations. — John Whaite Copy Share Image
But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: 'Don't. You will regret it. One day you will wake up… — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters,… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“Ah, one doesn't give up one's country any more than one gives UP one's grandmother. They're both antecedent to choice—elements of one's… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've never been a passive political supporter. My grandmother, Betty Kleitz , god bless her soul, was from Tuskegee, Alabama, took parts… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
“Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
If you don't love a table groaning with fancy salads, pimped-up couscous, show-stopping trifle and a cubic ton of my grandmother's own… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
One day at my grandmother's house, I discovered 'The Secret Garden' and read it. This was the first book I found entirely… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
You know, my grandmother used to say, 'While I'm down here planning, God's up there laughing.' I guess the thing with most… — Paul Anka Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a 'lively imagination.' She told us that she was… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image