My Grandmother Quotes - Page 7

• Im at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.

  Anne Wojcicki

  Drinking, Grandmother, Type 2 Diabetes

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• My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup.

  Katharine Weymouth

  Mother, Kids, Sunday

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• I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.

  Saina Nehwal

  Disappointment, Grandmother, Years

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• As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Cousin, Children, Grandmother

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• During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

  Marlee Matlin

  Father, Grandmother, California

  "My Father’s Chutzpah" by Marlee Matlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2011.

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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

  Grandmother, Mind, Plant

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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

  Grandmother, Black And White, Moon

  "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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• People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Memories, Grandmother, People

  Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention, ignored. At dark, I kept reading, first on the couch, a bologna sandwich in one hand, then in my bed, by the light of a 60-watt bulb hanging from the ceiling on an orange drop cord. When my mother came in from her job as a maid and unplugged my chandelier, I replayed the story in my head until it was crowded out by dreams. I woke the next morning, smelling biscuits, and reached for the book again.

  Rick Bragg

  Mother, Dream, Morning

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• I don't think I'm more politically-based as much as socially-based. My grandmother died on February 29th, and she kept all of my magazine and newspaper scraps, every interview. I've been in the newspapers since I was about 15 - not for rapping, but for real substantive stuff I was doing in the community, organizing around gang violence in the schools. So I had already made my grandma proud before I was on TV. I've always been who I am.

  Killer Mike

  Real, Rap, Grandma

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of
  having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Beautiful, Home, Grandmother

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• I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.

  Kathy Bates

  Mother, Nice, Eye

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• I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  War, Grandmother, Nurse

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, my grandmother used to say, 'While I'm down here planning, God's up there laughing.' I guess the thing with most things that are worthwhile is that you can't give up easily. You've got to hang in.

  Paul Anka

  Giving Up, Grandmother, Laughing

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• My grandmother is basically blind, but she can make out the lighter parts, like my skin and hair. She says, 'I can see you, because you have no pants on.' So I'll continue to wear no pants so that my grandma can see me.

  Lady Gaga

  Grandma, Grandmother, Hair

  "Lady Gaga Worships Queen and Refuses to Wear Pants". Interview with Austin Scaggs, www.rollingstone.com. February 19, 2009.

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• I seriously love to cook ... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid, I used to help her make handmade pasta, cavatelli and ravioli. It was one of my favorite things to do. I love the idea of making whatever is in the fridge into something.

  Bradley Cooper

  Kids, Grandmother, Ideas

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

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• I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play -- she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.

  Toby Keith

  Grandmother, Eight, Doors

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• I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer's Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It's been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.

  Carey Mulligan

  Grandmother, Alzheimer's, People

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• If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

  Mo Rocca

  Grandmother, Years, Meals

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• My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. Thats my aspiration.

  Jeremy Miller

  Grandmother, Italian, One Day

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• I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.

  Connie Francis

  Song, Grandmother, Italian

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• Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life...It would be cliché to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

  George Eads

  Sports, Dad, Hero

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• I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

  Stana Katic

  Eye, Grandmother, Names

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• I've always liked long, flowing clothes,...I used to rummage around in my grandmother's trunks trying to find them. I love the feeling of chiffon and lace.

  Stevie Nicks

  Grandmother, Clothes, Long

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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, Grandmother

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