Grandmother Quotes - Page 24

• My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

  James Earl Jones

  Thinking, Taught Us, Racism

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• When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Beautiful, Mother, Religious

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• Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Years, Play, Actresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Self, Way

  "Russell Baker: Gerald Boyd’s Book On Being Fired From The New York Times", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.

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• My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

  Marina Abramovic

  Phones, Firsts, Phone Calls

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• Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Girl, Mom, Aunt

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• My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

  James Earl Jones

  One Direction, Dramatic, Sanity

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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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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• When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Typewriters, Drawing

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• My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.

  Margaret Walker

  Strong, Memories, Hands

  Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.21, University of Georgia Press

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• With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Past, Ideas, Two

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• I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

  Julie Andrews

  Two, Julia

  Julie Andrews (2008). “Home: a memoir of my early years”

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• My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Book, Style

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• Today there are people trying take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

  Kerry Washington

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Rights

  Kerry Washington's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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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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• My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know... You break it, you buy it.

  Emo Philips

  Jobs, Kids, Doors

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• My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.

  Bernie Mac

  My Grandmother

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• My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.

  Jon Stewart

  Baseball, Boys, Shoes

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• I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to LA when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video.

  Jacob Latimore

  Views, Years, People

  "Exclusive: Jacob Latimore talks Black Nativity and Maze Runner". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. November 26, 2013.

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• We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef.

  Anne Heche

  Hero, World, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy. It's funny, because I was the only one who is Catholic in it. You have this thing in mass where you have to genuflect before you go into the pew, so I said you have to do this [for a scene] and they said why, and I said because you have to; I don't know why, it's a rule. Or like instinct. It's funny they set in a Catholic school. I went to St. Ignatius College Prep - "Where Modesty is our Policy."

  Robin Tunney

  School, College, Catholic

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• If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?

  Enele Sopoaga

  Moving, Grandchildren, Islands

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• They [granddaughters] went to Disneyland and Alice proudly told Snow White: 'My grandmother is a famous atlas!' So that's nice - they're happy that I'm an atlas!

  Joanna Lumley

  Atlas, My Grandmother

  "Joanna Lumley on her lasting love for husband Stephen Barlow - and how she knew they should be together before they even met" by Gaby Huddart and Dennis Ellam, www.mirror.co.uk. February 16, 2018.

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• You might be a redneck if your grandmother can correctly execute the sleeper hold.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Bingo, Might

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