#grandmother

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#am #bones #even #fantasies #feel

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.' ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#first #get #grandmother #her #i

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#beyond #child #children #come #grandmother

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#firsthand #former #grandmother #i #importance

I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#beautiful #dogs #ever #friends #grandmother

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#i #idiots #laws #made #me

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#corner #death #did #extension #going

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#both #child #could #ear #fool

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#been #gods #grandmother #how #i

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#grandmother #husbands #just #napping #she