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• I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter.

  Gena Showalter

  Race, Promise, Use

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.258, Harlequin

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• If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one." It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone had ever spoken to W. W. Hale the Fifth in that manner. Kat was also fairly certain it wouldn't be the last. "I might lose my grandmother's company." Kat gave a smile and held Hale tight. "You won't lose me.

  Ally Carter

  Safe, Want, Might

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• I always make sure there’s an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.

  Tablo

  Sleep, Doors, Forever

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• Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dating, Lovely, Racist

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.94, Scholastic Inc.

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• What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe,
  and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and
  balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the
  science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It
  means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something
  nice to eat.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Nice, Food

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• My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

  Margaret Mead

  Learning, School, Far Away

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• They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.

  Camara Laye

  Grandma, Heart, Grandpa

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• Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother.

  Margaret Whitlam

  Children, Grandma, Grandpa

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• A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren.

  Phil Moss

  Grandchildren, Too Much, Fool

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• My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better.

  Andre Bauer

  Children, Stupid, Silly

  "Starve the Poor" by James Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2010.

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• Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.

  Frank Gehry

  Fun, Creativity, Thinking

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• "Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Home, Mean, Grandchildren

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• All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

  Mamie Gummer

  Mother, Daughter, Husband

  "Emily Owens, M.D. Star Mamie Gummer Reveals Her Mom's (Meryl Streep!) Movies That Make Her Laugh, Cry, and Watch Again and Again". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. October 16, 2012.

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• But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a role model for her two daughters, and who left a lasting impression on so many who knew her.

  Judy Woodruff

  Beautiful, Mother, Daughter

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• I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over to my grandmother, who I lived with while I went to school. I was clean and finally starting to figure myself out. I can only say that now without laughing. I was still very out of my own place, and I didn't even know what that place was. All I knew was that I could write music, that I had no idea what that could mean and that I was still surrounded by people I couldn't relate to. I hadn't found my tribe yet.

  Corey Taylor

  Mother, Giving Up, Writing

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• He's an American, qualified to play for Wales because he has a Welsh grandmother, who was on the bench against Switzerland.

  Guy Mowbray

  Football, Play, Switzerland

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• I was lucky. My grandmother stepped up for me and said she would take responsibility for me and a compassionate juvenile judge took a chance and gave me one. They were getting ready to send me away to do real time, but they sent me instead to a juvenile alternative day school. And I guess that was the beginning of my turnaround.

  Bob Beamon

  Sports, Real, Responsibility

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• We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Queens, Grandma, Heart

  Tribute to Princess Diana on the Eve of her Funeral, delivered 9 September 1997, Chinese Dining Room at Buckingham Palace, Westminster

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• Though she doesn't remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother resorted to passing out candy so the kids would play with her. Though it was a humorous moment, Mila said, "I know, God bless her. She's an amazing, amazing woman."

  Mila Kunis

  Humorous, Grandma, Kids

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• India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Past, Men

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• Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.

  Bill Cosby

  Mother, Father, Parent

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• No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspiring, War, Believe

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• Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Tears, Ugly

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• My grandmother is basically blind, but she can make out the lighter parts, like my skin and hair. She says, 'I can see you, because you have no pants on.' So I'll continue to wear no pants so that my grandma can see me.

  Lady Gaga

  Grandma, Hair, Skins

  "Lady Gaga Worships Queen and Refuses to Wear Pants". Interview with Austin Scaggs, www.rollingstone.com. February 19, 2009.

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• I seriously love to cook ... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid, I used to help her make handmade pasta, cavatelli and ravioli. It was one of my favorite things to do. I love the idea of making whatever is in the fridge into something.

  Bradley Cooper

  Kids, Ideas, Pasta

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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