Grandmother Quotes - Page 21

• Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.

  Rose Leslie

  Lying, Grandparent, Together

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

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• When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

  Noel Fielding

  Children, Garden, Fairy

  "The Weird World of Noel Fielding". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2016.

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• My grandmother told me: "We all dated lots of different boys because no one was having sex or kissing. It was just going out for sodas and getting to know people. It didn't seem like there was a threat." I think now we have more ideas of people having premarital and unprotected sex.

  Zoe Kazan

  Sex, Kissing, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I definitely appreciated '60s music. My uncle and I used to take long road trips to visit my grandmother when I was going to NYU. We'd listen to Petula Clark and other 60's music and sing at the top of our lungs the whole time.

  Erica Schroeder

  Uncles, Nyu, Long

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Order, Law, Idiot

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• I'd RKO my own grandmother if it meant keeping this title. Then I'd RKO your grandmother just to see the look on her face.

  Randy Orton

  Wwe, Titles, Looks

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• Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled. Bushes were dangerous, and so were sea grass and rain water. There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end. Grandmother tried to discuss this with her, to no avail. Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.

  Tove Jansson

  Fear, Rain, Book

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• My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'

  Patrick Schwarzenegger

  Saving, Charity, Said

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• 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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• "A closed mouth doesn't get fed." Oftentimes, we feel not worthy or we don't want to bother people. We forget to ask for help or what we need or would like. My grandmother used to say that quote to us as kids. It's kind of always stuck with me.

  Kevin Daniels

  Kids, People, Needs

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• I did not have any problem with speaking up because my mother, my family, my grandmother, my aunt - I grew up in a family dominated by women - always encouraged me to do so. And if a girl is unafraid, then the world is her oyster.

  Ava DuVernay

  Girl, Mother, Aunt

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• [The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

  Junot Diaz

  Disappointment, Barack

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• It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused.

  Michel'le

  Mother, Like Love, Accepted

  Source: www.elle.com

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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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• My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food - the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip a Cuban record.

  Gloria Estefan

  Baby, Airports, Records

  "Estefan Performs Songs From New Album" by Caitlin Johnson, www.cbsnews.com. August 27, 2007.

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• And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!

  Gloria Estefan

  Mother, Struggle, Two

  Address to the League of United Latin American Citizens, July 01, 2005.

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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 think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.

  Grace Slick

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

  "The Joan Rivers Show", 1990.

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• My mother and grandmothers could never have lived my life; my father and my grandfathers could never have imagined it. But they bestowed on me the promise of America, which made my life and my choices possible.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Father, America

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• There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wisdom, Horse, Knowing

  Miguel de Cervantes (2000). “Don Quixote”, p.758, Modern Library

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• My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.

  Irene Cara

  Cousin, Brother, Dad

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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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