All Quotes

My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!
‐‐ Edie Brickell

My grandmother was the type of woman who always smiled and said, 'Treat people like you want to be treated, and life is so much easier.' My mom is the same way.
‐‐ Torii Hunter

My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her neighborhood by going into her garden, plucking a couple of leaves, and brewing teas.
‐‐ Selenis Leyva

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

My grandmother, when she was young, would've walked past shops where some folks had out a sign that said, 'No Mexicans or dogs allowed.'
‐‐ Julian Castro

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

My grandmother, whom I adored, and who partly raised me, loved Liberace, and she watched Liberace every afternoon, and when she watched Liberace, she'd get dressed up and put on makeup because I think she thought if she could see Liberace, Liberace could see her.
‐‐ Alan Furst

My grandmother, whom we call Biel, thinks it's very unbecoming of me not to smile for the paparazzi. So every time I see them, I think, 'Smile for Biel!'
‐‐ Jessica Biel

My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
‐‐ Ice Cube

My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall.
‐‐ Petra Stunt

My grandmother would give me a beautiful book each year. I especially loved the Beatrix Potter books. They were very detailed. And I promised myself that was what I'd do. I also loved the big words she used. I was excited because I knew what they meant from the context. I put a few big words in for just that reason.
‐‐ Jan Brett

My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically.
‐‐ Keri Hilson

My grandmother would start making her meat sauce at 7 in the morning on Sunday, and within five or six hours, that smell would be all through the house.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.
‐‐ James McAvoy

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
‐‐ Margaret Walker

My grandmothers are Irish-American and German-American; my grandfather is from the Caribbean. My father is African-American. My family looked funny. I just started naturally imitating whoever I was talking to. I didn't want to be a phony, but I felt very authentic in the moment.
‐‐ Sarah Jones

My grandpa always tells me that 45-minute lunches are key because an army marches on its stomach.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

My grandpa got me a set of Wilson clubs, Sam Snead models, when I was 12. Many years later, when I'd become well known, I got to know Sam, and we played a lot of golf together.
‐‐ Evel Knievel

My grandpa showed me how to build stamina onset behind the scenes on 'Twixt.'
‐‐ Gia Coppola

My grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.'
‐‐ Gia Coppola

My grandpa was a preacher.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
‐‐ Adam Driver

My grandpa was the one; he started taking up golf when I was about two and introduced me to the game as far as just taking me to the driving range where I grew up playing. That was really all he had to do was let me hit a golf ball and kind of fell in love with it from there. He didn't really have to teach me a whole lot or anything.
‐‐ Rickie Fowler

My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don't know, it didn't take me long to realize I'm a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.
‐‐ Rickie Fowler

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.
‐‐ Antony Sher

My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.
‐‐ M. Ward

My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.
‐‐ George Clooney

My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
‐‐ Becky G

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.
‐‐ Kyle Chandler

My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.
‐‐ Clarence Thomas

My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery/restaurant. They sold wine from their own vineyard. I took control of the vineyard, hired a local winemaker, and bought another winery in 1996. We had our first commercial vintage in 1998.
‐‐ Joe Bastianich

My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
‐‐ Billy Crystal

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
‐‐ Lee Greenwood

My grandparents left the Pale of Settlement at the border of western Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, fleeing anti-Semitism and hoping to make a better life for their children in America.
‐‐ Merrick Garland

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
‐‐ Chris Bohjalian

My grandparents live in Cley, and my dad now has the windmill which is a guest house. So I've spent much time up there, but a lot of it was at school as well, and my dad was sent abroad so often as well with the army.
‐‐ James Blunt

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
‐‐ Tamra Davis

My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
‐‐ Carice van Houten

My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
‐‐ Robert Woodrow Wilson

My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with.
‐‐ David Beckham

My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
‐‐ Natascha McElhone

My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.
‐‐ James Gray

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.
‐‐ Vincent Schiavelli

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
‐‐ Gabrielle Zevin

My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid