My Grandmother Quotes - Page 13

• 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, Grandmother

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

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• My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

  Chris Ware

  Grandmother, Empathy, Might

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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• Valentine's day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine's Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but now everyone's like 'Oh, happy valentine's day!' I even got a Valentine's Day card from my grandmother. How ridiculous is that? We stopped having sex years ago!

  Greg Giraldo

  Funny, Girlfriend, Sex

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• It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.

  Russell Baker

  Food, Grandmother, Funny Thanksgiving

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• I've seen my grandmothers grow old and they are so beautiful, every wrinkle in their face tells a story. I want to feel that in 30 years. I would always choose that kind of beauty over that comes from having too much done to yourself.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Grandmother, Wrinkles

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• My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.

  Julian Castro

  Mother, Brother, Children

  Julian Castro's keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• I've got a lot of experience with anorexia - my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it. I know it's not something to be taken lightly and I don't.

  Keira Knightley

  Taken, School, Grandmother

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Children, Grandmother, Color

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• I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses from my grandmother to artists like David Bowie and Boy George.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Inspiration, Grandmother, Artist

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• I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Mother, Father, Church

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• My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity. Marc and I want to make sure we're doing that. This period of our lives is not just a tribute to her, it's inspired by her. And it's for when we have our own children — I want to help make sure we've got a world I want them to live in.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Children, Grandmother, Opportunity

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• For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Grandmother, Years, Childhood

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.83

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• My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

  Billy Strayhorn

  Grandmother, Piano, Littles

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• My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

  Emanuel Celler

  Girl, Grandmother, Catholic

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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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• My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.

  Emily Levine

  Grandmother, People, Olympics

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• With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.

  Joy Bryant

  Grandmother, Green, Buying

  "Waste Not, Want Not". www.elle.com. June 21, 2011.

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• I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

  Debi Mazar

  New York, Children, Growing Up

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• I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.

  Debi Mazar

  Grandmother, Cooking, Hooked

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• My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

  David Alan Grier

  Growing Up, Grandmother, America

  "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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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, Grandmother

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• I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Grandmother, Order, Law

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• My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.

  Victoria Azarenka

  Grandmother, Inspire, Persons

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• And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Real, Inspiration, Grandmother

  2006 Oscar Award Acceptance Address for Best Actress, delivered 5 March 2006

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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, Grandmother, Bakers

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