Albert Einstein
Physicist
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."
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Grandma
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Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz Singer
"Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don't call me 'Grandma Jazz.'"
Gore Vidal
Writer, Essayist, Playwright
"Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild."
Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys...Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house...and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both."
Prince William
Royalty
"As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother."
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"A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma."
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"Dating is so insecure. My last relationship, I was always there for her and she dumped me. I told her about it. I said, "Remember when your grandma died? I was there. Remember when you flunked out of school? I was there. Remember when you lost your job? I was there!" She said, "I know"
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"Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric."
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"Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him."
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"My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy."
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"I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma."
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"A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside."
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"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."
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"My grandma always said bad things don't last forever."
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"We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart."
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"A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother."
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"My grandma always said, "Where there's a will, there's a way." I think it's just naturally in our DNA to be able to survive. We was always taught that: to survive. When you talking about slavery, it's to survive."
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"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."
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"Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written."
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"I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma." "You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma."
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"My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook."
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"Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof."
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"We have become a grandmother."
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"Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm."
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"I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men."
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