Grandmother Quotes - Page 17

• Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.

  James Patterson

  Mom, Mother, Brother

  "How to get your kid to be a fanatic reader" By James Patterson, www.cnn.com. September 28, 2011.

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• My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.

  Victoria Azarenka

  Inspire, Persons, My Grandmother

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• My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

  Ziggy Marley

  Spiritual, Cousin, Aunt

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

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• And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Real, Inspiration, Self

  2006 Oscar Award Acceptance Address for Best Actress, delivered 5 March 2006

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• Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

  Djuna Barnes

  Love Is, Suffering, I Have Learned

  Letter to Emily Holmes Coleman, February 02, 1934.

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• I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

  Isak Dinesen

  People, Looks, Stories

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.109, Vintage

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• When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.

  Laozi

  Death, Kings, Where You Come

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• My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

  Chris Ware

  Empathy, Might, Turns

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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• Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!

  Camille Paglia

  Clothes, Feminist, Culture

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

  Romany Malco

  Film, Theater

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• I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for.

  Katie Davis

  Girl, Christian, Jesus

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.

  Russell Baker

  Food, Funny Thanksgiving, Turkeys

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• Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Doubt, Politics

  Woodrow Wilson (1986). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I've seen my grandmothers grow old and they are so beautiful, every wrinkle in their face tells a story. I want to feel that in 30 years. I would always choose that kind of beauty over that comes from having too much done to yourself.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Wrinkles, Years

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• My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.

  Julian Castro

  Mother, Brother, Children

  Julian Castro's keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be.

  William Monahan

  Sex, Thinking, Opera

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• My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

  Kevin Gates

  Teacher, Reading, Stressed

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• Christ has meant everything to our marriage. It was my commitment to Christ and the words from my grandmother that made me stick with Phil [Robertson] when there wasn't much to hold on to. How has Phil changed? Do you have a year to hear about it? His love for the outdoors, his pioneer spirit, and his quest for adventure has not changed. But his heart has been turned inside out. He's a new man in every way that involves relationships.

  Kay Robertson

  Heart, Adventure, Commitment

  Interview with Emily Whitten, world.wng.org. December 19, 2013.

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• Although I love all the great foods of the world, my death row meal would have to be cooked for me by my mother and grandmother (they live together and this happens on most Sundays). More than satisfy our hunger, these dinners nurture the soul.

  Joe Bastianich

  Mother, Sunday, Soul

  "Culinary Kings-Turned TV Judges Cook Up Verdicts on Gordon Ramsay-Hosted MasterChef". The Daily Beast Interview, www.thedailybeast.com. July 27, 2010.

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• I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

  Alice Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Teaching

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• Being an impatient person, I wanted to do what my grandmother said: "Do as much as you can as fast as you can; be as productive as possible." But you must be patient. So I have struggled to balance patience with being an impatient person, and trying to find a happy medium.

  Farrah Gray

  Balance, Trying, Patient

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• I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Comfort, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Years, Play, Glasses

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.

  Agnes Varda

  Real, Twenties, Should

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Franny Armstrong is a mother of three and a grandmother of four. Her husband supports her imagination and has the patience of a saint. She's been writing since she was a child, creating plays to act out in front of the neighborhood children.

  Franny Armstrong

  Mother, Children, Husband

  Source: romancing-the-book.com

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