Grandmother Quotes - page 17

When I run into couples who recognize me, it's usually the women who are the most friendly. Once, at a Greek restaurant in New York City, a huge family was seated at a table nearby. Late in the evening, the grandmother stood up and said, ‘Tera, I love you! I watch you all night long!' Her daughter almost had a heart attack out of embarrassment. The grandma replied, ‘Honey, I may be old, but I'm not dead yet!' (Tera Patrick)
José Ariel Blanco, the 25-year-old owner of a stationery store two blocks from the legislature, said he was thankful for Mr. Morales's achievements - chief among them, tackling the racism that the Indigenous had suffered for centuries. "My grandmother couldn't walk into a bank in her Indigenous clothes until Evo became president,” he said. "Now she can, and that won't change.”. View quote
Evo Morales
In Chicana writing the love between a grandmother and a granddaughter is holier than the relationship between a mother and a daughter because the mother and daughter have to deal with the reality of the everyday, whereas the grandmother can be revered from afar. Especially if she's dead, she becomes this mythic symbol in Chicana literature. View quote
Sandra Cisneros
Rajeev's name was kept after his maternal grandmother‘s [Kamla Nehru] name. Although the meaning of ‘Kamala' is ‘Goddess Lakshmi' and the meaning of Rajiv is ‘lotus', at that time it was thought that the child's name was kept after his grandmother's name. View quote
Rajiv Gandhi
Start small, put down the book you're reading and sit with your grandmother to learn her language and find out about her life's struggles and her history, before she passes on and your history is lost; put down the TV remote control and stop letting pop culture define who you are and go for a walk through your hometown's historical landmarks. Find your identity by actually looking for the things in life that appeal to you or stir emotion in you. If you just let your government, your local imam, even your local pop singer or nasheed singer, define what you should be, you will never be more than that. Look in the mirror and ask yourself, ‘Who do I WANT to be?' Start there. View quote
Dawud Wharnsby
They grew up very Americanized, in West Los Angeles, and even though the community was very Mexican, they grew up listening to radio shows, being very much influenced by movies, by things like that. So between 1920 and 1940 it was very interesting time, where they were really trying to discover what it was to be American, even though my grandmother and grandfather were Mexican. It was a time that I'm excavating myself in my work because it was such a transition for them... View quote
Helena Maria Viramontes
My grandmother gets who I am, so when you ask me about people who don't understand, or people who are on their bully pulpits saying you shouldn't accept people, I'm like: "What's happened to you that, of all the things you can talk about, of all the injustices in the world, the one thing you want to concentrate on is trans people living their truth? How is that harming you and your identity? How I identify has nothing to do with you, and how you identify has nothing to do with me. Right? So live your life and let me live mine. View quote
Janet Mock
I came for one simple, basic reason - not a joke: to say thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your service. Thank you for who you are. And thank you for what you're doing. And as my grandfather would say every time I walked out of his house - he'd yell at me, "Joey” - in Scranton - he said, "Keep the faith.” And my grandmother - my grandmother would yell, all kidding aside - this is serious - she'd yell, "No, spread it.” You're spreading the faith. Thank you, thank you, thank you. May God bless you all and keep you safe. May God protect our troops. View quote
Joe Biden
After visiting the school, we attended mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with Father Eddie. In the pews, families and friends held each other tightly. As Archbishop Gustavo spoke, he asked the children in attendance to come up on the altar and sit on the altar with him as he spoke. There wasn't enough room, so a mom and her young son sat next to Jill and me in the first pew. And as we left the church, a grandmother who had just lost her granddaughter passed me a handwritten letter. It read, quote, "Erase the invisible line that is dividing our nation. Come up with a solution and fix what's broken and make the changes that are necessary to prevent this from happening again.” End of quote. My fellow Americans, enough. Enough. It's time for each of us to do our part. It's time to act. For the children we've lost, for the children we can save, for the nation we love, let's hear the call and the cry. Let's meet the moment. Let us finally do something. View quote
Joe Biden
That's what Hillary Clinton understands - this fighter, this stateswoman, this mother and grandmother, this public servant, this patriot - that's the America she's fighting for. And that is why I have confidence, as I leave this stage tonight, that the Democratic Party is in good hands. My time in this office, it hasn't fixed everything. As much as we've done, there's still so much I want to do. But for all the tough lessons I've had to learn, for all the places where I've fallen short - I've told Hillary, and I'll tell you, what's picked me back up every single time: It's been you. The American people. View quote
Barack Obama
[T]he Jewish Nigger, Lassalle... It is now quite plain to me - as the shape of his head and the way his hair grows also testify - that he is descended from the negroes who accompanied Moses' flight from Egypt (unless his mother or paternal grandmother interbred with a nigger). Now, this blend of Jewishness and Germanness, on the one hand, and basic negroid stock, on the other, must inevitably give rise to a peculiar product. The fellow's importunity is also nigger-like. (Karl Marx)