Grandmother Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• I found a great deal of relief and excitement watching comics when I was very young. My grandmother was very into them and so was my grandfather. They had a profound effect on me, so I just found myself watching comedians on the after-school shows: Merv Griffin and that kind of stuff.

  Marc Maron

  School, Profound, Comedian

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

  Isabel Allende

  Daughter, Mother, Mean

  Interview with Marisel Mendoza, www.ventanalatina.co.uk. April 10, 2013.

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

  Zsuzsanna Budapest

  Mother, Mythology, Myth

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

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Want, Ifs

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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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• The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.

  Florence King

  Growing Up, Couple, Pain

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• My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on Monday morning, because the Sabbath was a day of rest--a practice that made my paternal grandfather, the village atheist, as mad as fire. Nevertheless, he willed five quid to the minister, just to be on the safe side.

  Angela Carter

  Monday, Morning, Atheist

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.

  Jung Chang

  Crush, Mother, Years

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• The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Black And White, Moon, Order

  "Alfonso Cuaron on How Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr. Almost Starred in 'Gravity'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 18, 2014.

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• The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts.

  Tony Danza

  Uncles, Children, Aunt

  "Q&A: Tony Danza on Don Jon, Fake Deaths, and Scarlett Johansson". Interview with Danielle Bacher, www.esquire.com. September 27, 2013.

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• In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Mom, Food, Men

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• Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these

  Michael Pollan

  Health, Nutrition, Wellness

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• The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Men, Shoes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.59

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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 don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.

  Charles Barkley

  Mom, Sports, Growing Up

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• My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of course, she was a talkative, jolly, interminably curious woman, who loved people, and who enjoyed the personal details of their lives almost as much as they did themselves.

  Molly Picon

  People, Curiosity, Personal Question

  Molly Picon (1962). “So Laugh A Little”

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• By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

  Bryan Sykes

  Dna, Details, Flow

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• I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.

  Angela Carter

  Grandparent, Together, Groups

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• Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

  Margaret Deland

  Men, Vices, Generations

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• I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Knowing, People, Negative

  "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.

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• There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.

  George Brandis

  Teacher, Growing Up, Home

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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