Grandmother Quotes - Page 28

• My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood.

  Julia Stiles

  Childhood, Lucky, Broadway

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

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• I remember seeing Janet McTeer in A Doll's House. My grandmother took me and we had seats in the very back row, but her performance was so powerful - it was very accessible. I felt like I was much closer than I was.

  Julia Stiles

  Powerful, House, Dolls

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

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• I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I was painfully aware of what it was like to live with limited resources and a certain level of uncertainty.

  Joy Bryant

  Limited Resources, Levels, Grew Up

  "Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 17, 2015.

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• My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

  Joe Biden

  Grandfather, India, Punjab

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

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• I was raised by my grandmother. She had a very difficult time, raised all her kids, my father and everybody. Listening to those stories and finding her so strong, poised. Anybody who came close to her was made to feel blessed. And at the same time, it didn't matter how strong a person was, in front of her, their head would go down. She carried through her life raising everybody. That is my model.

  Rajashree Choudhury

  Strong, Father, Blessed

  Interview with Zoe Kors, issuu.com. May 3, 2013.

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• My great grandmother was Chinese .

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Chinese, Great Grandmother

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Girl, Baby, Boys

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1994). “The Little House Book of Memories”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example is the use of turmeric for healing wounds, which is something every mother and grandmother does in every home in India. Now the Mississippi Medical Center claims to have "invented" the capacity of turmeric to heal wounds.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mother, Healing, Home

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of the presence of a greater being I call God.

  Mahershala Ali

  Mom, Church, Grew Up

  "Mahershala Ali: the 'free state of Jones'". Interview with Sam Williams, www.eurweb.com. June 24, 2016.

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• I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle.

  Matthea Harvey

  West Germany, Two, Borders

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• What was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother. She said, "I don't think there's a woman alive who would give up fighting for her child, or her mother, or her grandmother."

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Mother, Children, Giving Up

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• My mother and my grandmother would make an apple tart in different styles, and I had one per day. Every day I would eat one full apple tart.

  Eric Ripert

  Mother, Apples, Style

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I brought a lot of images of pieces I got from my grandmother, pieces I collected over time and then we met with a designer and we tried to morph all my inspirations into one story.

  Julia Restoin Roitfeld

  Inspiration, Stories, Pieces

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot of talent, she painted extremely well. She was quite a strong factor in my life.

  Edmund Hillary

  Mother, Strong, Talent

  Source: www.listener.co.nz

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• I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion.

  Neal Shusterman

  Dad, Tired, Rolling

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• I’ve never cheated on a lover. I’m faithful, always. But the war comes before anyone’s feelings. Every time.” Wow. Battle before love. Without a doubt, he was the most unromantic male she’d ever met. Even more so than her great-grandfather, who had laughingly burned her great-grandmother to death after she’d given birth to Gwen’s grandmother.

  Gena Showalter

  War, Feelings, Faithful

  Gena Showalter (2014). “Lords of the Underworld Collection 2: The Darkest Whisper\The Darkest Passion\The Darkest Lie”, p.122, Harlequin

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• He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")

  Ray Bradbury

  Spring, Sadness, Autumn

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Oct 01, 2015

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• Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Girl, Stars, Fall

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories: Fairy Tales, Folktales Collections”, p.293, 谷月社

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• The Challenge is to pry Bertie loose from Dain and his circle of oafish dengenerates,” Jessica said severely. “It would be far more profitable to pry Dain loose for yourself,” said her grandmother. “He is very wealthy, his lineage is excellent, he is young, strong, and healthy, and you feel a powerful attraction.” “He isn’t husband material.” “What I have described is perfect husband material.” said her grandmother. “I don’t want a husband.” “Jessica, no woman does who can regard men objectively. And you have always been magnificently objective.

  Loretta Chase

  Strong, Powerful, Husband

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• He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it was like as if a door had been unlocked and she'd been let outside, she said to me I'm safe now. He waits, and he says this kid, when it's born, you mustn't ever let it think it's anything other than a gift and a blessing, do you hear me?

  Jon McGregor

  Mother, Kids, Blessing

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Mother, Daughter, Night

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• Self-love is part of your birthright. I'm excited to be sharing this message to "beautiful girls" everywhere, including those disguised as grandmothers.

  Christiane Northrup

  Beautiful, Girl, Love Is

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.

  James Patterson

  Mother, Cat, Two

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• I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Grandma, Law, Like You

  Mary E. Pearson (2014). “The Jenna Fox Chronicles”, p.57, Macmillan

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• Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane) It’s amazing the lies we tell other people, isn’t it? (Sunshine's grandmother)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lying, Believe, Sunshine

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