#grandmother

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes. ↗

— George Eads

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My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#both #brave #close #contrary #culture

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it. ↗

— Susana Martinez

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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.

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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

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It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more. ↗

— Ann Romney

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I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment: This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America! ↗

— Ann Romney

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I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon. ↗

— Charles Colson

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