My grandmother was from Panama. It's a very vibrant place, the Spanish influence is very apparent. It's interesting to see the contrast… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My grandmother is basically blind, but she can make out the lighter parts, like my skin and hair. She says, 'I can… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty.… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
That's because we keep weapons int the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time monsters have attacked our… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was always a person on my mother's hip in the kitchen. My mom really wanted her kids at her side as… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother.… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
“You are a beacon for us. One of the most powerful." "I'm not," I say softly. "Not anymore." Smiling, my grandmother presses… — Carolyn MacCullough Copy Share Image
I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy.… — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
Everybody I see, that's the first thing they think of when they see me: 'WHUUUUUT?' or 'YEEEAAAHHH!' But they don't realize that… — Lil Jon Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure, with a grandmother like mine, if you can ever become a true American in the sense of believing that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Binkie, the one and only. He can hear her rings clacking on the plastic phone, and he chuckles, envisioning with amusement the… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
My grandmother spent a lot of time with us when we were growing up. She did the school runs and fed us… — Nadiya Hussain Copy Share Image
“Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend,… — Sean Covey Copy Share Image
During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My grandmother had a cupboard where she kept her collections and textile samples of all sorts of things. When I had good… — Hubert de Givenchy Copy Share Image
There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just wanted to say Happy birthday to my late grandmother…i miss you with all my heart and if there was any… — Nikki Marie Copy Share Image
“Her grandmother experienced them differently, as if they brought her remnants from another time, another life even, which she refused to acknowledge… — Abby Slovin Copy Share Image
I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I was uncontrollable. I didn't like school. I was younger than everyone in my class by two years. I had few friends.… — Howie Long Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in… — Tony Lema Copy Share Image
The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
I'm not a type of grandmother sitting in a rocking chair. I'm a lot in the theater. I'm a lot at concerts.… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image