My family was into music. My dad was into music down south. My mom and grandmother were into gospel music so there… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
I'm at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to… — Aaron Brookner Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of really influential people in my life, like my grandmother M. J., who have helped me along the… — Khloe Kardashian Copy Share Image
I always felt like a girl. My parents in New Jersey weren't exactly encouraging, but my grandmother was very open-minded. She had… — Amanda Lepore Copy Share Image
Being a mom, I love to play with my kids and have fun with them, but I also love fashion. My mom… — Kourtney Kardashian Copy Share Image
You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed.… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
I remember the words of my grandmother who died at 102. I remember my great mother, Grand Brika, who died at the… — John Kani Copy Share Image
“All my grandfather ever wanted to do was wake up at dawn and watch my grandmother kneel and pray in a village… — Rafeef Ziadah Copy Share Image
You need to understand this. We did not think we owned the land. The land was part of us. We didn't even… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
“She leaned back, closing her eyes and blowing out a thin wisp of smoke. “He was always a good-looking man. Your eyes… — Angela Misri Copy Share Image
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
[My grandmother] was the assistant pastor at Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward - my grandmother, Evie Goines. And so my mother… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
I am a descendant of slaves. My great grandmother Mary Thomas, born in 1865, was the child of a slave. That is… — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose,… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
“Not your girlfriend?” Grandmother guessed. “Well, she should be, you dolt! Don’t let her get away. You need strong women in your… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My paternal grandmother, Nanny Hadley, lived in a block of flats in London; you could see the corner post of the Arsenal… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
My grandmother was kind, but she knew what she wanted and she wasn't afraid to give a command. When, eventually, I ran… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
My grandmother always put a penny in my bag. I don't know if it was an old-fashioned thing or a good-luck thing,… — Leslie Grossman Copy Share Image
Valentine's day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine's Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
"A closed mouth doesn't get fed." Oftentimes, we feel not worthy or we don't want to bother people. We forget to ask… — Kevin Daniels Copy Share Image
[My grandmother] managed her money better than some financial professionals I know. I give credit always to her because she is the… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them.… — Cote de Pablo Copy Share Image
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My grandmother was the matriarch. I was the youngest of all the men in my family, so I kind of used them… — IronE Singleton Copy Share Image
“The only slight disconcertance being that in the middle of looking at a paintings [in the Museum of Modern Art] she always… — J.P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
“I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm a grandmother and like every grandmother, I worry about the safety and security of my grandchildren, but my worries are not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I definitely appreciated '60s music. My uncle and I used to take long road trips to visit my grandmother when I was… — Erica Schroeder Copy Share Image
![“My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.” quote by Aaron Brookner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/902/aaron-brookner-54373_chill_my-grandmother-has-kept-all-of-his-stuff_1977981.jpg)
![“[My grandmother] was the assistant pastor at Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward - my grandmother, Evie Goines. And so my mother was doing - I remember when my mother graduated from beauty college, so I was about 5, and so I guess she was about 21. And I just remember being there, taking the…” quote by Mahershala Ali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53e/mahershala-ali-6687_assistants_my-grandmother-was-the-assistant-pastor_3196292.jpg)
![“[My grandmother] managed her money better than some financial professionals I know. I give credit always to her because she is the reason I have my column and national recognition.” quote by Michelle Singletary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09a/michelle-singletary-8251_columns_my-grandmother-managed-her-money-better_2880308.jpg)
![“The only slight disconcertance being that in the middle of looking at a paintings [in the Museum of Modern Art] she always found herself desperately needing to take a pee. And grandmother's voice in her ear. 'My dear, if you really have to, only clean, very clean rest rooms will do.” quote by J.P. Donleavy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d3/j-p-donleavy-28601_grandmother_the-only-slight-disconcertance-being-tha_3141206.png)
