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My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that. -- Cornelia Funke
I inherited my love of gold jewellery from my grandmother. -- Aerin Lauder
I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother. -- Prince William
My grandsons really love my apple cake, which is from my grandmother's recipe. -- Susan Lucci
I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny. -- Paul Mooney
I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family. -- Steven Adler
I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes. -- George Eads
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify. -- Jessica Hagedorn
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.
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap. -- Liv Ullmann
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, Jr.
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
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
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
I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember my grandmother as a queenly woman. My father could be stern, and my grandparents would remind him that we were just boys. -- James E. Faust
It was the day my grandmother exploded. -- Iain Banks
I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress. -- Joan Collins
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. -- Bob Edwards
I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god. -- Jamie Foxx
I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing. -- Miranda Kerr
To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons. -- William Shakespeare
They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart. -- Camara Laye
I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?' -- Zach Galifianakis
At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general. -- Jung Chang
There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows. -- James Patterson
I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me. -- Brina Palencia
Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering. -- Joan Bauer
As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical. -- Tina Turner
I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget. -- Jodi Picoult
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I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things. -- Stana Katic
[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught. -- Pauline Oliveros
I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table. -- Taylor Negron
I believe in things I can count on, like beer and ESPN and my grandmother's pecan pie. -- Justin Timberlake
My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life. -- Chelsea Clinton
I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable. -- Marjane Satrapi
Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away. -- Jessica Simpson
Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away." -- Jessica Simpson
coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body. -- Betsy Sholl
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
Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try." -- Joy Bryant
As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full. -- Azzedine Alaia
The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me. -- Todd Bridges
I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience. -- Jayne Meadows
As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite. -- Kris Carr
I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices. -- Mavis Staples
The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill. -- Mavis Staples
My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. -- Hunter Hayes
I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me. -- Marc Jacobs
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters. -- Edwidge Danticat
I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother. -- Andre Leon Talley
When my son will be born, my first goal will be for him. The rest, will be as always for my grandmother. -- Lionel Messi
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
When I was a girl, my grandmother would take me during the holidays to see the windows at Saks and Rockefeller Center. -- Michael Learned
My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P. -- T.I.
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Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died. -- Mike Gordon
Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer. -- Kristina McMorris
Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of style. -- Aerin Lauder
We actually have a small family. It's just my father and I and my grandmother, who lives in Tokyo. I cherish my friendships. -- Apolo Ohno
In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth. -- Mona Simpson
I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch. -- Anthony Hamilton
I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian. -- Jen Lancaster
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism. -- Lisa Bonet
When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden. -- Noel Fielding
I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right. -- Chris Ware
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
Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages -- Isabel Allende
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women. -- Carlos Fuentes
My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant. -- Rick Bayless
I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else. -- Robert Herjavec
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
I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong. -- Terry Tempest Williams
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
My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast. -- Aeriel Miranda
Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way. -- Will Smith
On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since. -- Jarrett J. Krosoczka
My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised. -- Kristina McMorris
In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers. -- Louis Simpson
One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob ... -- Mona Van Duyn
Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now. -- Charles Barkley
My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer. -- Geoffrey Canada
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
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
I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories. -- Hilary Mantel
Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood -- N. Scott Momaday
There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me. -- Kimberly Schlapman
Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer. -- Lionel Richie
I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times. -- Marcus Samuelsson
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
One day at my grandmother's house, I discovered 'The Secret Garden' and read it. This was the first book I found entirely for myself, and I cherished it. -- Cynthia Voigt
Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales. -- Carine Roitfeld
I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time. -- Kerry Greenwood
I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric. -- Shea Hembrey
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
My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis. -- Alan Huffman
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
You're going to be my grandmother." "You silly child. In my heart, I've been your grandmother for years. I've just been waiting for you to make it official. -- Julia Quinn
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
You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day. -- Nadia Giosia
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
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
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
When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people lived there and experience my own culture was wonderful. -- Andrea Navedo
I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well. -- Khaled Hosseini
I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women! -- Isak Dinesen
Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all. -- Sarah Addison Allen
My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week. -- Willie Nelson
Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops. -- Hari Kunzru
Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being. -- Steve Garvey
My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee. -- Jamie Foxx
I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter. -- Gena Showalter
I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the beds and taught us how to find four-leaf clovers. -- Jandy Nelson
I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts. -- Stephen Lang
Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas. -- Maya Angelou

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