My grandmother Quotes · Page 18

In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at…

— Mona Simpson

But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: 'Don't. You will regret it. One day you will wake up…

— Natalia Vodianova

My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went…

— Margaret D. Klein

My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately,…

— Joy Bryant

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

— Elena Roger

Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a…

— Steve Garvey

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard…

— Julian Castro

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

I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures.…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then,…

— Marge Piercy

I seriously love to cook ... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid I used to help her make handmade…

— Bradley Cooper

I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as…

— Sue Miller

I was lucky enough to realize my dream. When I was a little kid in Santa Barbara, sitting on the floor in…

— Floyd Norman

One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother…

— Patti Smith

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

— Jessica Brown Findlay

I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set…

— Tamara Jenkins

My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You…

— Andre Bauer

I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.

— Jodi Picoult

Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew…

— Oprah Winfrey

[My grandmother] managed her money better than some financial professionals I know. I give credit always to her because she is the…

— Michelle Singletary

My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of…

— Scarlett Johansson

My grandmother lives on a farm. And growing up, I assumed that the animals that I was eating and the animals that…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

I was raised by my grandmother. She had a very difficult time, raised all her kids, my father and everybody. Listening to…

— Rajashree Choudhury

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

— Miranda Kerr

My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with…

— Oprah Winfrey