Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Leon Talley

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

Sophia Myles

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

Victoria Azarenka

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.

Toby Keith

I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play -- she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.

Hunter S. Thompson

Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.

Vivien Leigh

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

Will Smith

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

Kathy Griffin

Always and Forever is a Grandmothers love

Margaret Thatcher

We have become a grandmother.

Chuck Amato

I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.

Margaret Atwood

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to

Jane Asher

My parents were not theatrical at all.

Randy Harrison

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

Steven Chu

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

Jhumpa Lahiri

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

Francis Quarles

If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.

Horace Mann

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

Gloria Steinem

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Abraham Lincoln

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

Oscar Wilde

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

Caleb Cushing

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.