Quotes About Grandmother

Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.

I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother.

I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my best friend and I would act out the films that we saw.

I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.

My grandmother was my inspiration. She was the person who took me to the theater and encouraged me to act, and she's the one who always believed in me.

As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she came to America. She could only give us a smattering of details, but they all found their way into our collective imagination, eventually becoming a part of our own cultural identity and connection to the past.

I didn't actually even really know my grandmother; I must have been 3 or 4 when she died.

My Indian grandmother was born in Punjab.

As a child, I was lucky enough to spend each summer with my grandmother.

I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there.

I've always heard the same doomsday concerns and yet, every day, there are people going to a classical concert for the first time - whether it's on a date or being dragged there by their grandmother.

My grandmother used to call me Sweetie, and I really loved it.

My grandmother was such an incredible example of living out everyday acts of resistance. I now realize not only how lucky I was to grow up in that environment, but also how unique that was.

If I show you pictures of my grandmother, what you see is these eyes - cat eyes - and high cheekbones.

My grandmother wore a beehive hairdo even when it was out of fashion.

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant.

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

The only thing I knew would make my grandmother more proud than watching my TV courtroom was to see me dressed up in white tie doing the foxtrot.

What's a lingonberry?" "It's a fruit that grows in the forest, in Sweden. You've probably had lingonberry jam at your grandmother's house. We always had it when I was growing up; like other kids had grape jam, we had lingonberry. Your grandmother always used to say lingonberry jam is like Swedish summer in a jar. The Swedes love their lingonberries. It's not so sweet, sort of like cranberry sauce.