“She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money's worth that night.” — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“They’ll say great-great-grandmother built this, and they’ll be right.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
The saying was that Madam Walker made the money, and her daughter - my great-grandmother - spent it. — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
There's a rumor that my great-grandmother was 6'7''. I don't know if it's necessarily true, but that's a big woman. — Mohamed Bamba Copy Share Image
I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother. — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
“I screwed up guys, real big time; holy great grandmother of all screw-ups!” — Satyen Nabar Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother,… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce. — Michael Pollan 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
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
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
All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
“I am in the night of the stars. The moon is new and I see my way by focusing on the light… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so… — Mary Lawson Copy Share Image
I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Raised to believe that her life would be, as her great-grandmother's was said to have been, one ceaseless round of fixed and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“I had hardly ever seen Great Granny Webster at that time, and yet her feelings interested me. She was little more to… — Caroline Blackwood Copy Share Image
“Nor need I dwell at any length upon the personal communication which passed between Doctor Bataille, Albert Pike, Gallatin Mackey, Sophia Walder,… — Arthur Edward Waite Copy Share Image
When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Someone must be having a big party, Shyla thought as she turned into her neighborhood, the rhythmic salsa beat of Latin music… — Barbara Casey Copy Share Image
“She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great grandmother… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“their base ingratitude to my poor old grandmother. She had served my old master faithfully from youth to old age. She had… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“If any one thing in my experience, more than another, served to deepen my conviction of the infernal character of slavery, and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother taught my mom to cook and she passed down the recipes to me. — Teresa Giudice Copy Share Image
I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it. — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognizeas food. There” — Sarah Ballantyne Copy Share Image
My great grandmother, Martha, was hired at 11 years old to be a worker to people. — Amybeth McNulty Copy Share Image
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
