Quotes About Tradition

My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.

My grandmother spent a lot of time with us when we were growing up. She did the school runs and fed us when my mum was busy. To be with her was to really be at home.

My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.

I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother had two daughters, and my mother had two daughters. My sister had a daughter and then finally a son. You should have seen my father with the son. He could not believe that finally there was a boy in the family.

Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.

I used to eat under my grandmother's dining room table. I wouldn't eat at the table ever until I was about 10.

My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

When I was growing up, my grandmother cooked every day. She is the best chef ever.

My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'

I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed.

I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.

Both of my grandmothers were needlewomen, so I grew up around dress design.

My grandmother was the genesis of my connection and passion to food.

My Chinese grandmother was a dressmaker, so I always enjoyed dressing up and looking cool.

My Indian grandmother was born in Punjab.

You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know.

A lot of people in the African-American community are raised by grandmothers, and that relationship is a special bond and circle.

Now my grandmother, who used to want sons, says that she does not really want boys anymore. She says I'm the lion of the family.

My grandmother got into this business in the 1940s, so it's all I've ever known. So I've seen a lot of wrestling.

My grandpa and I, whenever we would go to Myrtle Beach, we couldn't wait to get there and have fried seafood.