#grandmother

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

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I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#i #idiots #laws #made #me

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#corner #death #did #extension #going

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#chambers #gas #gas chambers #germany #grandfathers

Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#both #child #could #ear #fool

But certainly in my grandmother's time - and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie's bathroom was on the side of the house, it was a separate door. Still, to this day, I've never been in that room. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#been #certainly #day #door #grandmother

Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

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My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me. ↗

— Billy Strayhorn

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My grandmother valued even the smallest of things. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

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