#grandmother

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#exercise #family #grandmothers #grandparents #humor

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#elizabeth #grandmothers #i #julia #named

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#different #grandmother #her #invention #law

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#best #breaking #breaking up #fight #grandmother

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! ↗

— Edie Brickell

#come #cook #could #eat #food

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#away #behind #block #boulevard #followed

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#double #eight #features #grandmother #i

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#crossing #followed #girl #grandfather #grandmother

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#grandmother #her #ii #life #me

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people. ↗

— David Dinkins

#cleaning #cooking #grandmother #here #mother