Grandmother Quotes - Page 29

• Your grandmother used to say that you were two souls separated in heaven. She mainly meant you were both trouble and deserved each other.

  Kristen Ashley

  Two, Heaven, Soul

  Kristen Ashley (2011). “Rock Chick”, p.172, Rock Chick LLC

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• Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events - the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves.

  Tove Jansson

  Running, Weather, People

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• I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It's so natural for a woman to open up her mirror and apply lipstick

  Monica Bellucci

  Mother, Mirrors, Natural

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• I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

  Jill Scott

  School, Names, Grandson

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• My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.

  J. Cole

  Girl, Mom, Dream

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• Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt.

  Marge Piercy

  Sweet, Spring, Wine

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• I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Mother, Believe, Energy

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• Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.

  Steve Garvey

  Responsibility, Maturity, People

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• All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

  James Cromwell

  Mother, Father, Inspiration

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• My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Character, Hair

  Interview with John Currin, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 30, 2010.

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• My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Parent, Slave, Great Grandmother

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• My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother's womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me.

  Joe Gibbs

  Mother, Kids, Special

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• My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

  Warren Beatty

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.

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• I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.

  Jordin Sparks

  Running, Bakers, Bakeries

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• Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Horse, Children, Block

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.16

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• I was always a person on my mother's hip in the kitchen. My mom really wanted her kids at her side as much as possible, and she worked in restaurants for over fifty years. And my grandfather had ten children, and he grew and prepared most of the food. My grandmother, on my mother's side, was the family seamstress and the baker. So my mom, the eldest child, was always in the kitchen with my grandpa and I was always in the production and restaurant kitchens and our own kitchen with my mom. And it's just something that has always spoken to me.

  Rachael Ray

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "Interview with Celebrity Chef Rachael Ray". TheCelebrityCafe Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. March 27, 2012.

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• If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Want, Ifs

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• Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.

  Zsuzsanna Budapest

  Mother, Mythology, Myth

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• Those people on the other side, they will answer any question about climate change by saying, 'I’m not a scientist.' Well, I’m not a scientist either. I’m just a grandmother with two eyes and a brain.

  Hillary Clinton

  Eye, Two, People

  "Hillary Clinton Focuses On Renewable Energy In Climate Change Plan" by Marina Fang, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2015.

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• Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays. My grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength.

  Rosa Parks

  Prayer, Sunday, Everyday

  "Quiet Strength: the Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation,". Book by Gregory J. Reed and Rosa Parks, 1994.

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• Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Summer, Daughter, School

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• I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother.

  Charlie Day

  Dad, Class, Guy

  "Monster Madness for Charlie Day". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. July 08, 2013.

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• I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Daughter, Given, I Can

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I embrace the criticism, because ultimately (it means) the masses have seen it [my movie]. I embrace it for my father's story, for my mother's story, for my auntie, for my grandmother, who all got their teeth knocked out so I could be [where I am].

  Lee Daniels

  Mother, Father, Mean

  Source: deadline.com

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• Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.

  Isabel Allende

  Girl, Sexy, Mother

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