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  • And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

    Family   Mother   Flower  
    Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press
  • I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

    Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”
  • Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

    Mother   Cousin   Uncles  
    Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.25, The Floating Press
  • Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

    Mother   Men   Maps  
  • A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

    Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony
  • Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

    Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways
  • I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity we ate romantically, by candlelight.

    Mother   Children   Home  
    "Jill Scott: 'In Botswana I ate wopani worms. They were terrible. They crawl and have legs'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.
  • On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

  • Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

  • There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example is the use of turmeric for healing wounds, which is something every mother and grandmother does in every home in India. Now the Mississippi Medical Center claims to have "invented" the capacity of turmeric to heal wounds.

    Mother   Healing   Home  
    Source: scottlondon.com
  • The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

    Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.54, Rodale
  • A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

    Mother   Grandma   Names  
    William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed. With Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius and Writings, by N. Rowe”, p.590
  • My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'

  • Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

    Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.182, PublicAffairs
  • As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

  • Although I love all the great foods of the world, my death row meal would have to be cooked for me by my mother and grandmother (they live together and this happens on most Sundays). More than satisfy our hunger, these dinners nurture the soul.

    Mother   Sunday   Soul  
    "Culinary Kings-Turned TV Judges Cook Up Verdicts on Gordon Ramsay-Hosted MasterChef". The Daily Beast Interview, www.thedailybeast.com. July 27, 2010.
  • Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

    Mother   Food   People  
    "Ottolenghi Brings the Mediterranean to America". Interview with Anna Monette Roberts, www.popsugar.com. October 24, 2013.
  • My mother made sure we stayed involved in the church and the things of God. My relationship with Christ came about through that and the influences of my mother and grandmother helped my faith to grow.

    Source: www.beliefnet.com
  • The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  • My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother's womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me.

    Mother   Kids   Special  
  • Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another.

    Girl   Mother   Daughter  
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”
  • Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.

    Girl   Sexy   Mother  
  • Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

  • Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

    Reader's Digest, 1987.
  • We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

  • 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.

    Funny   Life   Birthday  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

  • The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today

  • Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.

    Mother   Father   Book  
  • An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

    Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways
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