Darling Daddy, This is Rose. So flames went all up the kitchen wall. Saffron called the fire brigade and the police came… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
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You could say I was born into entrepreneurship. My grandmother, who was from Sierra Leone, was left to raise four children in… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The hearth is desolate. The children, the unconscious children, who once sang and danced in her presence, are gone. She gropes her… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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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
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Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Surprisingly I've never really stolen anything. One time when I was really young, I was walking down the street, found a GI… — Baron Vaughn 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
He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The only struggle came from me wanting more for my family and feeling like if they had one less individual to take… — Petey Pablo Copy Share Image
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Everybody thinks that you go to Africa and you build a school, or you teach English, or you build a hospital. But… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
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It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. Now I understand that I've gotten to enjoy things that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
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Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
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Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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