Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas,

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'It’s still the best game in town because you don’t have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.'

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Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvellous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

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To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.

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Politic man ordained Imagination as the fateful sin. Grandmother and her basketful of pears Must be the crux for our compendia.

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Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.

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My grandmother passed away from cancer, so this is a great opportunity to honor her. You just don't want to forget people.

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.

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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

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The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man

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The Queen Mother, with a lifetime's popularity, seemed incapable of a bad performance as national grandmother-warm, smiling, human, understanding, she embodied everything the public could want of its grandmother.

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

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

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My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

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

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And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.

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These are not investments for the grandma and grandpa set,

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How would they explain that as they got off the plane at Beirut? ... How would they tell grandma under a cypress tree: They wanted us to worship a donkey!?

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Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held it's ground.

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

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She said 'Hi Grandma, this is Liz, I'm OK. I'm with...' and she couldn't quite understand who she said. But it ended with an 'E' sound on the end.

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Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

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My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle

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You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

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I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.

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If I knew I was going to live so long, I would have taken better care of myself.

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