Grandmother Quotes - Page 37

• Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

  Joy Bryant

  Trying, Used, Beats

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

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• The person that inspires me and has inspired me my whole life is my grandmother. She's strong, head of the household, the person everyone turns to, the one that can solve problems. She's just so warm and caring, loving, but at the same time very strong and can do anything, in my eyes. A great role model and someone that I aspire to be like in life.

  Daniella Alonso

  Strong, Eye, Caring

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• I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Spiritual, Religious, People

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with my mother - whom I really did not know - who had moved to Milwaukee. Something inside myself knew that I was never going to see my grandmother again - I would be wasting my time to live in that space of wanting that.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mother, Space, Would Be

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• My grandmother taught me two very important lessons before she passed: hold the door for everyone and always say "thank you." That means to treat everyone the same, no matter if it is the President or a homeless mother begging for food. And never forget to thank those who have helped you, whether it is the person serving you food at a restaurant or your third-grade teacher who taught you the multiplication tables.

  Michael Skolnik

  Mother, Teacher, Mean

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My grandmother always would say, "This, too, shall pass." It is always true.

  Melissa Rauch

  This Too Shall Pass, My Grandmother

  "Big Bang Theory’s Melissa Rauch Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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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• We live in a society now where it's very rare for your parents to be around. It used to be like, your mother, grandmothers, your family around would help. Now, you're surrounded by other moms and friends and it's really disorienting, because there's such varying, crazy, different points of view and advice coming at you.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Mom, Mother, Crazy

  "Kathryn Hahn on Pinterest, Motherhood, and What It's Like In Jill Soloway's 'Pussy Womb'". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.mtv.com. July 29, 2016.

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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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• When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul-parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion of how the current President is governing. The man wants a sexual encounter and love is far from his mind; she desires permanence, commitment, safety, and security.

  Jim Anderson

  Commitment, Love Is, Ice

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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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• 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 great grandmother was Chinese .

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Chinese, Great Grandmother

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• When I was invited to go to Wuhan, I didn't know anything about it, so I looked up the Wikipedia about Wuhan. I discovered that part of Wuhan used to be Hankou, and then I realised that my great grandmother came from Hankou. My grandmother and father were both born in Hankou. Of all the places in China, it is the most amazing place to have asked for my exhibition. I needed to go back where my family comes from!

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Father, Wikipedia, Exhibitions

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• I don't really remember much before was eight, but I do remember that my dad brought me to drop me off at my grandmother's house, and he was a very emotional guy, but that was the first time I really saw him cry, cos I knew it killed him to have to give me up, but he knew I needed some family structure. That was the last time I'd see him or talk to him when he was sober for the next 10 years.

  Diamond Dallas Page

  Dad, Emotional, Eight

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• I'm a grandmother and like every grandmother, I worry about the safety and security of my grandchildren, but my worries are not the same as black grandmothers.

  Hillary Clinton

  Grandchildren, Safety, Worry

  "Clinton Campaigns In North Carolina In Wake Of Police Shooting". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 2, 2016.

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• I did marry, I did get pregnant, but as I was giving birth, my daughter and I almost died. We were rushed to the hospital. I had an emergency cesarean and in that moment, in the emergency room, I felt my grandmother come to me. She was with me and when my daughter was born, instead of naming her Hailey, I named her Lucy after my grandmother. Hailey lives in the pages of my books.

  Nancy Grace

  Daughter, Book, Giving

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.

  Wendy C. Ortiz

  Mother, Comfort, Protection

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don't like the destination and you look behind and you don't want to return to that place, step off the road.

  Maya Angelou

  Years, Looks, Want

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

  Maya Angelou

  Growing Up, Italian, California

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• [My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Mother, Taught, Music Is

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• My third mother is my paternal grandmother. Her name is Viola. She gave me my sense of knowing why, or knowing why it was important to ask why. She made me understand that I don't have to believe everything I hear.

  Erykah Badu

  Mother, Believe, Names

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• My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.

  Erykah Badu

  People, Judging, Faces

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• I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

  Robert Bly

  Mother, Father, Sibling

  Source: www.utne.com

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