Grandmother Quotes - Page 39

• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Writing, Florida, Typewriters

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• My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Smart, House, Opera

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.

  Sam Abell

  Mother, Teacher, Brother

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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• My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And shed come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.

  John Mellencamp

  Religious, Sunday, Boys

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• My grandmother was German. She didn't teach any of her children German. She really wanted them to be American. And now, she's since passed away, I get so frustrated sometimes. I'm like, "Oh, Oma, why didn't you teach your kids German?" My dad would have spoken German to me from birth, and I would have spoken German.

  Dakota Fanning

  Children, Dad, Kids

  "Dakota Fanning on Why It's Good to Be a "Weird Person"". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. August 9, 2016.

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• My grandmother used to say before you moan about the muck on someone else's glasses make sure you're not on about the muck on your own her glasses were filthy

  John Hegley

  Glasses, Used, Filthy

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• I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Sex, Father

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind... like Robert Plant.

  Tori Amos

  Mind, Plant, Virgins

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• My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.

  Willard Scott

  Mother, People, Cooking

  Willard Scott (2005). “If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First”, Hyperion

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• There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the ones who feel hurt. The latter are definitely in the minority.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Hurt, Home, Two

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• My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint.

  Rose Quiello

  Meat, Hunters, Saint

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• If we aren't careful, our children will come down with 'affluenza,' a disease that causes them to confuse wants and needs. We need to teach our children what my grandmother taught me: Think twice about spending money you don't have on things you don't need to impress people you don't like anyway.

  Michelle Singletary

  Money, Children, Thinking

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• coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.

  Betsy Sholl

  Death, Spring, Shoes

  Betsy Sholl (1986). “Rooms overhead”, Alice James Books

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• One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.

  Willa Cather

  Children, Husband, Simple

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.136, U of Nebraska Press

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• Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

  Lois Wyse

  Details, Want, Taste

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.35, Harmony

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• So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write

  George Lopez

  Beach, Writing, Thinking

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• The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the child's falling. This often makes them forget to comment on other aspects of the child's development, like why he is not yet talking or is still wearing diapers. Some grandmothers will spend an entire meal peering beneath the table and saying, "Is that thing steady?" rather than, "Have you had a doctor look at that left hand?

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Fall, Sassy

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.115, Ballantine Books

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• Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girl, Country, Silly

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• Some moments can only be cured with a big squishy grandma hug.

  Daniel Pearce

  Grandma, Hug, Moments

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• My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

  George Weah

  Christmas, Father, Years

  "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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• I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.

  Paul Mooney

  Thinking, Southern, Drug

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and dont want to look like grandmothers.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Sexy, Careers, Clothes

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• Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

  Marianne Moore

  Mother, Character, Stories

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.112, Penguin

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• My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

  Parker Posey

  Stars, Attitude, Looks

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• On the way to the delivery room, I almost changed my mind about having a baby. I wouldn't have found it so hard to go ahead with it if I had realized that having a baby was the only way I could ever become a grandmother.

  Phyllis Diller

  Baby, Grandparent, Mind

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