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Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything."Collection: Grandmother
If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.Collection: Grandmother
My grandmother influenced me so deeply.Collection: Grandmother
If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.Collection: Grandmother
Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.Collection: Grandmother
It's funny about love', Sophia said. 'The more you love someone, the less he likes you back.' 'That's very true,' Grandmother observed. 'And so what do you do?' 'You go on loving,' said Sophia threateningly. 'You love harder and harder.Collection: Grandmother
Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard. And meridians. Isn't that pretty? We're going to fly along them, faster than the light can follow us... Time won't be able to catch us.Collection: Grandmother
I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play -- she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.Collection: Grandmother
A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.Collection: Grandmother
My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.Collection: Grandmother
I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as this new thing. It reminds me of how people used to tell me about my great-grandmother and how they used to gather around a radio listening to soap operas.Collection: Grandmother
It was the day my grandmother exploded.Collection: Grandmother
My grandmother ... came here, not only like so many others because of the streets 'being paved with gold' and all, but because she wanted to leave the place where the streets were paved with people who had not gone to America.Collection: Grandmother
One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!Collection: Grandmother
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.Collection: Grandmother
We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.Collection: Grandmother
When she left for a third time and returned with a giant box, I started to get irate. "What is this?" I demanded, taking it from her. It felt like it had bricks in it. "Grandmother needs you to carry some things," Paul told me. "Yes," I said through gritted teeth. "I sort of figured that out fifty pounds ago.Collection: Grandmother
The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.Collection: Grandmother
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.Collection: Grandmother
When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.Collection: 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 itCollection: Grandmother