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My great-grandmother Morrison fixed a book rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes.
View quotes by Mary Lawson

We have become a grandmother.
View quotes by Margaret Thatcher

Was it through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey? (Addressed to T. H. Huxley)
View quotes by Samuel Wilberforce

I was told by my grandmother’s cousin who was an actress in the ‘20s – she was 86 and I was 4 at the time – that I would be an actress one day.
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There are but two families in the world as my grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
View quotes by Miguel De Cervantes

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

View quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.
View quotes by Flannery O'Connor

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.
View quotes by Steven Adler

There are few better people to steal recipe ideas from than your grandmother.
View quotes by Hugh Fearnley-whittingstall

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave. My aunt, my grandmother - those are my heroes.
View quotes by George Eads

My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!
View quotes by Edie Brickell

She was a buxom grandmother noted for her detective stories, who gazed mournfully at the camera as if deploring either the bloodiness of her craft or the size of her advance.
View quotes by P D James

I said 'Are you a Christian or a Jew?' He said 'Christian.' I said 'Me too! Protestant or Catholic?' He said 'Protestant.' I said 'Me too! What franchise?' He said 'Baptist.' I said 'Me too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?' He said 'Northern Baptist.' I said 'Me too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Reform Baptist?' He said 'Northern Conservative Baptist.' I said 'Me too! Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist or Northern Conservative Reform Baptist?' He said 'Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist.' I said 'Me too! Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region or Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Eastern Region?' He said 'Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region.' I said 'Me too! Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912 or Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region of 1850?' He said 'Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.' I said 'Die heretic!' And I pushed him off the bridge!
View quotes by Emo Philips

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
View quotes by Isaac Singer

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.
View quotes by Erskine Caldwell

I just thought, what a great script, what a great, fun concept, and ultimately what a great group of people to work with, from people who run things all the way down to Jessica and the cast.
View quotes by Michael Weatherly

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
View quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.
View quotes by Russel H Conwell

I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.
View quotes by Jerry Yang

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
View quotes by William Bridges



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