All Quotes

My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing men - the most amazing man that I ever met... He lived an amazing life.
‐‐ Josh Henderson

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

My grandfather was originally from the south of China before he emigrated to Malaysia pre-World War II. And I wanted to learn more about the history of the country of my ancestors. I knew I wanted a narrative set in contemporary Beijing. I was really interested in the effect of the rapid social and economic change on ordinary citizens in China.
‐‐ Susan Barker

My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.
‐‐ Scott Ian

My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.
‐‐ Liev Schreiber

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.
‐‐ Leigh Steinberg

My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.
‐‐ Frank Ocean

My grandfather was the king of a region in western Nigeria, where I had the privilege to live for seven years while growing up. But what we think of as royalty in the U.K. is very different to royalty in Nigeria: if you were to throw a stone there, you would hit about 30 princes.
‐‐ David Oyelowo

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.
‐‐ Bode Miller

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic

My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

My grandfather worked with charities his whole entire life, and we grew up living with him. He always told me about the other side of the world and everything that's going on.
‐‐ Ali Lohan

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
‐‐ Rand Paul

My grandma actually put me in girdles when I was around nine or ten because I had hips even then, and she didn't want boys to be attracted to me. Having hips meant you were a full-grown woman, and I was too young for that.
‐‐ Coco Austin

My grandma and my mom are not happy about the fact that I am still a bachelor. It's not on my mind that I have to find the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. It will happen the way it's going to happen.
‐‐ Maksim Chmerkovskiy

My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.
‐‐ Mac DeMarco

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.
‐‐ Deval Patrick

My grandma had a kids' clothing store for over 30 years called Shannon and Company, and my sisters and I used to go and work there in the summers.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

My grandma has a picture of Louis Farrakhan playing violin in her house.
‐‐ Shamir

My grandma is kind of a rock star. She goes to France and all over.
‐‐ Brandon T. Jackson

My grandma loves beauty pageants, like most of Latin American culture, but it's not for me.
‐‐ Stephanie Sigman

My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
‐‐ Gail Devers

My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.
‐‐ Emma Watson

My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
‐‐ Becky G

My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
‐‐ Natalia Kills

My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. Two of my three sisters are dancers, so we grew up in the arts.
‐‐ Frankie J. Alvarez

My grandma was really sick when I was working on 'Sin Nombre' and eventually died that summer when we were finishing the film. But I was able to bring an unfinished version of the film for her to watch.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

My grandma was very traditional, but she herself is a rebel of that culture.
‐‐ Awkwafina

My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed - even later on, when I was well known and I supported her.
‐‐ Al Pacino

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'
‐‐ Patrick Schwarzenegger

My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'
‐‐ Jennifer Hudson

My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
‐‐ Bernie Mac

My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one second. Then I had to take action.
‐‐ Euzhan Palcy

My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad.
‐‐ Mark Ronson

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.
‐‐ Rohit Shetty

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
‐‐ Carol Burnett

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
‐‐ Carol Burnett

My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.
‐‐ Carol Burnett

My grandmother and my father always said I would end up as a missionary. Well, I feel like I am one now.
‐‐ Benjamin Watson

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.
‐‐ Juan Felipe Herrera

My grandmother, Angela, was the Fox family matriarch. She was magnetic but also wicked. She had this huge life force and was great fun, but she would play each member of the family off against each other, which could make for extremely dramatic Christmases.
‐‐ Emilia Fox

My grandmother can never really teach me anything because she skips steps.
‐‐ Awkwafina

My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.
‐‐ Prince William

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.
‐‐ Alain Ducasse

My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress.
‐‐ Julian Castro

My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person.
‐‐ Rosecrans Baldwin

My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.
‐‐ Oona Chaplin