My Grandmother Quotes - Page 3

• I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Jobs, Grandmother, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

  John Forbes Nash

  Memories, Grandmother, Play

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• My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Grandmother, Singing, Kind

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• I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

  George Eads

  Hero, Grandmother, Aunt

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• My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

  Dan Rather

  Country, Grandmother, Playing Games

  Dan Rather (1995). “The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist”, Hearst Books

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• I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Grandmother, Hollywood Hills, House

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• Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

  Gene Perret

  Children, Grandmother, Grandparent

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

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• I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Self

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

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• As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Children, Grandmother, Ghouls

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.196, Pan Macmillan

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• I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Grandmother, Clothes, Knowing

  "Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, Interviews Oprah Winfrey Live Online". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.

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• I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith, God, Christian

  "Maya Angelou discusses her faith, politics, courage ahead of LSU event next week". Interview with Chelsea Brasted, www.nola.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.

  Hunter Hayes

  Growing Up, Grandmother, Louisiana

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• My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Grandmother, Parent, Inspire

  "Chelsea's fans", pagesix.com. September 21, 2011.

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• My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

  Salma Hayek

  Baby, Grandmother, Medicine

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• All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. "When I get to Heaven", my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, "your grandfather won't even recognize me.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Children, Father, Grandmother

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

  James Taylor

  Beautiful, Memories, Grandmother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Writing, Grandmother

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). “Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition”, p.55, University of Texas Press

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• I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.

  Alice Hoffman

  Grandmother, Perfect, Cold

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

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• If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Grandmother, Names, Needs

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• When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Grandmother, Perfect, Heaven

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• My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Mother, Father, Eight

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• My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking.

  Stark Young

  Mother, Father, Talking

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• I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

  Jayne Meadows

  Mother, Dog, Writing

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• My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Grandmother, Smallest

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