Grandmother Quotes - Page 35

• Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

  Brett Ratner

  Mom, Beach, Brother

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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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• 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 used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.

  Richard Pryor

  Mean, Discipline, Ass

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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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• You might be a redneck if your grandmother has ever been asked to leave a bingo game because of her language.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Games, Bingo

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• My grandmother instilled in me a toughness that comes with survival. She was a tough lady and never truly enjoyed her life. She would always worry about things and I would tell her that it wasn't going to get her anywhere and it didn't. I wasn't even that smart back then, but I knew that worrying about everyone else wasn't good for her health. As Latinos, we stress and worry so much about the future when the future is today. As long as we protect what's good in our lives, we will be all right.

  George Lopez

  Smart, Stress, Long

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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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• I would sit in the back at church every Sunday trying to hide, and just when I thought I'd gotten through the service without her [grandmother] calling on me to sing 'His Eye Is On The Sparrow,' she'd always call me up

  Brooke Valentine

  Eye, Sunday, Church

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• One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word "elderly" in my copy over the years, and you will not be surprised to hear that the older I got the less often I used the word elderly in print.

  Anna Quindlen

  Elderly, Talking, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

  Will Smith

  Giving, Gold, Able

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though.... This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently.

  Arvind Ethan David

  Sexy, Book, Stuff

  "Nailed It!: David and Kyriazis on 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'". Interview with Keith Silva, comicsbulletin.com. March 8, 2016.

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• My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was happy and was going to pat me on the head and say I was good. But he took me home and told my grandmother this youngin' was at school singing the blues.

  Mavis Staples

  Uncles, School, Home

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My grandmother would always tell me that I was hers, that I was Mexican. That was her role. It was not my teacher's role to tell me I was Mexican. It was my teacher's role to tell me I was an American.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Teacher, Mexican, Roles

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish grandmother who came across the plains, hacked down the trees, and took the Spanish words she encountered and made them hers. Now her great-great-grandchildren sit terrified, wondering what to do with all these Mexicans. The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Running, Dream, Grandchildren

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• My mom told me I could have sheets, towels, and a few pillows, but I wanted leopard drapes, carpeting, and a comforter, too. I think maybe my obsession had something to do with my grandmother - she told me the best print to buy is leopard because it always stays in style.

  Kim Kardashian

  Mom, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.

  Gene Perret

  Nice, Grandchildren, Play

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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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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• 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 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 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 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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