My mother and grandmother created this secret garden where it was OK for boys to play with dolls, and it was OK… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of stomach cancer. I… — Eva Vertes Copy Share Image
She died when I was 16 and I just think no history books, nothing is ever going to talk about my grandmother.… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant -… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I have two paintings that used to belong to my grandmother, who lived in Chicago. When I was young, I used to… — Marisol Nichols Copy Share Image
I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it,… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
“She heard hearts bounce, tears brewing, and breath going backward, but nobody said a word. By the sorrow and loss and sweetness… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm… — Danny Pino Copy Share Image
And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are,… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
“As I prepare to leave she walks with me, half deaf and blind, under several ladders in her living room that balance… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should feed her," and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived… — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
“Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus Be dull and boring and omnipresent Criticize things you don't know about Be oblong and have… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When you do a film with somebody who's my age - which is always the role of a mother or a grandmother… — Suhasini Mulay Copy Share Image
Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother -… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
You're dropping the bow hand as you release," he called, although Halt certainly wasn't. His mentor looked around, saw him, and replied… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I lived with my mother and father and brothers and sisters some of the time; some of the time, my mother and… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
My third mother is my paternal grandmother. Her name is Viola. She gave me my sense of knowing why, or knowing why… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that… — Stephanie Beacham Copy Share Image
Years Ago I had the dream To Be Rich so that I could be able to buy everything my Grandmother ever wanted,… — MaddelineMaddie Copy Share Image
My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Recognize that the issues we face as women advancing in business are issues my grandmother would have loved to have had. And… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
“An e-reader! I’ve wanted one for a really long time.” She shoots a quick look over to her father. He nods, though… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
My Grandmother always reminds me that 'to whom much is given, much is required,' and that is how I want to live… — Jaren Jackson, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm not drunk onstage, although I've done that a couple of times when I was younger. It's partly just the way I… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
“His last image of Grandmother was of her glaring out the window, as if thinking about the terrible scolding she would give… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
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
