My grandma is very musical and can play piano by ear, and my grandpa was in a quartet in Kentucky.
My mom, my aunt, and my grandma banded together and gave me a village of support when I was growing up.
My grandma – we called her Mamaw – loved her country.
My grandma actually put me in girdles when I was around nine or ten because I had hips even then, and she didn’t want boys to be attracted to me. Having hips meant you were a full-grown woman, and I was too young for that.
I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma’s simple stuff. It’s not that simple, and I don’t use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.
Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.
I’ve been in the newspapers since I was about 15 – not for rapping, but for real substantive stuff I was doing in the community, organizing around gang violence in the schools. So I had already made my grandma proud before I was on TV. I’ve always been who I am.
Sara is about as tech-savvy as your grandma.
We want to bring the kids, the parents, the grandparents and grandkids together, we want them to have a shared viewing experience. We want the kids to talk about it in the playground, dad to talk about it down the pub, grandma to talk about it while she’s out shopping.
Music was a big part of my upbringing. My mum and my grandma are very passionate about music.
We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.
I grew up in the Dallas Metroplex. But I spent a lot of time in Waco and then in small towns down there with my grandma and then in Killeen and in Riesel.
My grandma told me, don’t get into trouble. I know how hard she worked to take care of her own nine kids and my mama’s three. And I just never wanted to hurt her. I never wanted to do something that would embarrass her.
I always like to look at things and think, ‘Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?’ And if I wouldn’t want them to see it, then it’s not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.
We should not have a government program that determines if you’re going to pull the plug on grandma.
There is a psychic gulf that exists between myself and my grandparents because they don’t really speak English, and I don’t speak Chinese, and that’s my own personal shame because I did not learn, ever. I only saw my paternal grandma a few times in my life, and that’s really crazy.
Seriously, my grandma’s like the oldest lady on ShipRocked every year. My grandma’s crazy.
I hope to be working and eating dessert at 93 just like my grandma.
My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
If someone’s personality is ‘punch an Asian grandma,’ it’s not a dialogue. I have an Asian grandma. You want to punch her? There ain’t no common ground, mama.
I grew up eating chicken and dumplings in my grandma’s kitchen.
My mom and grandma, growing up, one thing they emphasized was that you need to make sure that anything you put on your skin is also digestible by the body. For example, if something isn’t safe for me to eat or consume, it’s probably not good for your face. So I do a lot of natural remedies.
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they’re sorry? They do mean it, but… there’s nothing to say. There’s a void that cannot be filled.
When my grandma passed away, the one person I prayed for was my mom. I just hope that she finds peace. I hope she believes in a loving life.
Change is always good. You can’t keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have used electricity if she could.
My grandma loves beauty pageants, like most of Latin American culture, but it’s not for me.
When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she’s just the best.
I was complimented for looking young and yet was offered roles of aunts, sister-in-law and very soon grandma too!
I feel like a grandma.
My favorite food is macaroni and cheese that my grandma makes. My favorite drink has to be Vita Coco coconut water.
My mom took my sister and I to music classes. We used to hate practising as kids but my grandma used to make it fun by playing musical games with us.
I rarely saw my Grandma Markle, as she hailed from New Hampshire and spent much of her life in Pennsylvania and Florida. To bridge that gap, she would always send scrapbooks, care packages, and boxes of treats made from family recipes.
Now I have a deal with Swarovski! Growing up, my grandma, mum, and I collected the crystals, so that is really incredible.
I’m kind of a grandma, so I like cooking for my boyfriend and watching a movie. I cook a lot, actually. I’ll make bacon-wrapped asparagus, steak, and pesto pasta with chicken…but we go out to dinner a fair amount, too.
Before my husband deploys, he has a ritual that is familiar to many service members. He sits down with a generously poured bourbon, and he writes letters. One for his adult daughter, Rosalind. One for each of our little boys, Teddy and Antonio. One for his grandma, who raised him, and his family in Texas. One for me.
If you’re doing takeout, try to get the healthiest takeout you can. And just take it out of the plastic, right? Get your grandma’s old china or get a fancy little bowl, and put the takeout in the bowl and light a candle.
Grandma’s Camry, I don’t think it goes past 100. If you’re in an F1 car you can do circles around my Grandma’s Camry. But it’s Ol’ Reliable, for sure.
Mine wasn’t a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went to Grandma and Grandad’s caravan near Aberfoyle.
I got the name from my grandma because when I was a baby, she used to call me jittery. I used to move around real fast.
They say the only thing that your parents don’t teach you is how to live without them, but my grandma’s religious beliefs allowed me to accept death even though it was so hard to live without her.
My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.
I went to see ‘Phantom of the Opera’ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
A few years back, when my style was ‘punk grandma,’ I picked up an amazing pair of sandals – orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I’ve given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more ‘1980s substitute teacher gone wild.’
I’m a bit of a grandma: I don’t really understand the Twitter and the Instagram.
Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she’d read a dozen a month.
I used to get a lot of people saying ‘Oh, you are such a lucky granny.’ But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days.
So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That’s a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.
I come from really strong women. My mum is really strong, so that’s driven that into me, and my grandma was the strongest woman I’ve known in my life.
It all comes down to money. If the money is right, I’ll fight anybody, any time. I’ll hit my grandma in the face if the price is right.
I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It’s, like, a suburb in the area; it’s middle-class. But I used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six.
My grandma was a ballerina.
I wanted to be a gymnast when I was young – I used to do backflips and all those things in the street and at home – but my grandma said it was dangerous and made me stop.
My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, ‘Just be yourself!’ She also eats dessert every single day.
Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying to get me to play piano, but I was more interested in riding dirt bikes and playing in the mud.
Granny beads are what they’re called when a grandma works the garden all day – you always see them – they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that’s what they call granny beads.
My real name is Amanda Rose Saccomanno, so a lot of people don’t know that, but Rose is kind of special in my family as my grandma’s name is Rosemary, my mom’s name is Mary Rose, I’m Amanda Rose, my niece is Demi Rose.
