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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written. -- Alice Walker
Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers -- Kathleen Turner
As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education. -- Sue Kelly
You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night. -- Sergei Parajanov
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive. -- Marina Warner
All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity. -- James Cromwell
I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio. -- Jason Bateman
My mother made sure we stayed involved in the church and the things of God. My relationship with Christ came about through that and the influences of my mother and grandmother helped my faith to grow. -- Torii Hunter
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. -- Alice Walker
One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers. -- Samuel Smiles
Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books. -- Cai Guo-Qiang
The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today -- Matilda Joslyn Gage
Although I love all the great foods of the world, my death row meal would have to be cooked for me by my mother and grandmother (they live together and this happens on most Sundays). More than satisfy our hunger, these dinners nurture the soul. -- Joe Bastianich
I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight. -- Jill Scott
My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother's womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me. -- Joe Gibbs
Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls. -- Isabel Allende
My mother and grandmother both had beautiful skin. -- Andie MacDowell
Becoming a grandmother has felt like being a mother. -- Jade Jagger
Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history. -- Zsuzsanna Budapest
For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother. -- Kara Swisher
to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother. -- Elizabeth Goudge
My mother, grandmother and I all have different styles, but we share the same taste. -- Margherita Missoni
My mother, grandmother and I all have different styles, but we share the same taste. -- Margherita Missoni
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[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught. -- Pauline Oliveros
I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money. -- Anne Robinson
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people. -- David Dinkins
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. -- Pam Brown
I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels. -- Suzanne Farrell
In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe. -- Isabel Allende
I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices. -- Mavis Staples
I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience. -- Jayne Meadows
My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well. -- Jami Attenberg
My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don't know what I am, but I believe in God. -- Gbenga Akinnagbe
My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P. -- T.I.
I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself. -- Lamar Odom
Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me. -- Alexandra Stoddard
My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young. -- Kirsten Dunst
To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost. -- Les Lye
Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger. -- Anders Zorn
I think that, on television and in film, I will continue to be the mother to hot boys until, inevitably, I am their grandmother. -- Julie White
If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them -- John Calipari
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
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever. -- Alan Garner
I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me. -- Maya Angelou
Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful. -- Joanna Lumley
My mother and my grandmother would make an apple tart in different styles, and I had one per day. Every day I would eat one full apple tart. -- Eric Ripert
I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn't be so inclined to jump up and strangle my grandmother. -- Janet Evanovich
I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey. -- Elizabeth Rodriguez
My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer. -- Patti Smith
The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city. -- Ruben Blades
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me. -- Carol Burnett
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. -- Lois Wyse

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