#grand

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#down #getting #grandmothers #i #mothers

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#farming #fight #grandparents #illinois #kansas

A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#babies #baby #big #born #carrie

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#grandfather #house #institute #lawyer #massachusetts

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s. ↗

— Debra Winger

#children #come #gave #grandmother #i

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes. ↗

— James Wolcott

#cultivated #dainty #filtered #fine #fingertips

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#clear #dollars #grand #grand jury #hear

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#drinks #eighty #glasses #grandmother #need

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#basin #before #contains #fashion #glacier

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#being #grand #many #saying #things