Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Marian Seldes

My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.

Kathy Griffin

Always and Forever is a Grandmothers love

Margaret Thatcher

We have become a grandmother.

Margaret Deland

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

Quincy Jones

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

Prince William

My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.

Mother Jones

I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.

Naveen Andrews

I already had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. They wanted me to get a proper job, like any right-thinking parents would.

Kathy Banks

He is a parent and he is responding as a parent and that is how I'm taking his response.

Renzo Rosso

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

Russell Crowe

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

Tullian Tchividjian

My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!

Venus Williams

My parents always told us, you know, you have to get your education. You're not supposed to become a statistic.

Vera Farmiga

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

Valerie June

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

Robert Smith

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

Robert Dale Owen

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

Whoopi Goldberg

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.

Mahatma Gandhi

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

Juan Williams

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

Paul Mooney

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

Mira Sorvino

No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It only says that you should treat your slaves well. Well, I don't care if you treat them well. How is it possible that it is not immoral to own another person? Why isn't that one of the Ten Commandments? 'Thou shalt not own another person.' You want to sit here and tell me that fornication is worse than owning someone?

John D. Rockefeller

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.

George MacDonald

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)