Quotes by Grandmother My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker. Alice Walker virginia grandmother memories What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood. Alice Walker grandmother artist mean Being a grandmother is a wonderful thing, so my advice is skip the children. Go straight to the grandchildren. Alison Gopnik grandmother advice children If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one." It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone had ever spoken to W. W. Hale the Fifth in that manner. Kat was also fairly certain it wouldn't be the last. "I might lose my grandmother's company." Kat gave a smile and held Hale tight. "You won't lose me. Ally Carter grandmother safe want There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way. Alvin Dark grandmother real baseball Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles. Amanda Donohoe grandmother play drama NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party. Ambrose Bierce grandmother party office You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement. Amitav Ghosh grandmother going-away journey I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing... But later, she will forget her promise. She will forget she had a grandmother. Amy Tan grandmother parent mean The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse. Andre Leon Talley orange grandmother doors I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother. Andre Leon Talley grand-mother grandmother unconditional-love I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do. Andy Hallett grandmother proud lying Elephants and grandchildren never forget. Andy Rooney grandchildren grandmother elephants Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn. Angela Carter posing grandmother people I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. Angela Carter grandparent grandmother together Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother Ann Brashares grandmother wish needs ...while a sane world would not employ 5-foot-tall grandmothers as law enforcement officers, a sane world would also not give full body-cavity searches to 5-foot-tall grandmothers at airports. Ann Coulter airports grandmother law One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word "elderly" in my copy over the years, and you will not be surprised to hear that the older I got the less often I used the word elderly in print. Anna Quindlen elderly grandmother talking We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef. Anne Heche grandmother hero world She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is that you should never tell them how to find your grandmother's house. Anne Ursu grandmother eye running «1234567891011»