All Quotes

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

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.
‐‐ Curtis Jackson

My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.
‐‐ Muddy Waters

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.
‐‐ Julian Castro

My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.
‐‐ Joan Collins

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres

My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.
‐‐ Leila Aboulela

My grandmother taught me how to make the basic pate brise pastry crust when I was young. The one thing I learned simply by eating her endless variations on delicious tarts for dinner every night is that this dough can be used for just about anything - sweet or savory.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.
‐‐ Vik Muniz

My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.
‐‐ Elena Roger

My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before 1915: 'not so nice.' That's all I heard.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.
‐‐ James Earl Jones

My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.
‐‐ Jill Scott

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
‐‐ Cornelia Funke

My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood.
‐‐ Julia Stiles

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

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

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

My grandmother used to get her shoes made in Paris in the '30s, and they would be shipped to her in Singapore.
‐‐ Kevin Kwan

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.
‐‐ Koichi Tanaka

My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.
‐‐ John Morgridge

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.
‐‐ Jeremy Miller

My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of stomach cancer. I never met my grandmother, but I carry on her name - her exact name, Eva Vertes - and I like to think I carry on her scientific passion, too.
‐‐ Eva Vertes

My grandmother was a Greenpeace supporter. We've always done that sort of thing; we've always believed in helping others - it's part of our ethos.
‐‐ Michael Hintze

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.
‐‐ Anthony Minghella

My grandmother was a huge western fan. She'd have me watch with her. 'Shane,' 'Bonanza,' 'Duel in the Sun,' I saw them all with her. I used to watch them until the TV turned to snow.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.
‐‐ Richard Lewis

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.
‐‐ Colin Firth

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 grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases.
‐‐ Jennifer McMahon

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic.
‐‐ Jennifer McMahon

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.
‐‐ Loni Anderson

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.
‐‐ Rita Rudner

My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
‐‐ Lamar Odom

My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher or wherever and tell people, 'My grandson is going to be the next Calvin Klein.'
‐‐ Marc Jacobs

My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.
‐‐ Chris Pine

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
‐‐ Chris Ware

My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.
‐‐ Erika Christensen

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.
‐‐ David Alan Grier

My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

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

My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.
‐‐ Yves Chauvin

My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.
‐‐ Lisa Papademetriou

My grandmother was not a U.S. citizen. Growing up along the border, you see the real human side of immigration - not the picture often drawn by politicians far removed from the border.
‐‐ Pete Gallego

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.
‐‐ Tom Ford

My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold with her. They don't make them like that any more.
‐‐ Paul Mooney

My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.
‐‐ Brenda Strong