Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?
I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother.
When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing.
I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me.
My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast.
We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef.
I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.
Some day I want to play a grandmother. And a foxy one at that!
Maybe our grandmothers weren't as stupid as we thought. The family, volunteer work, religion, shaping the hearts and minds of the next generation-maybe all that can't be reduced to just 'shining floors and wiping noses. '
At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers
My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.
Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something. " "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist.
I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.
Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
My grandmother always would say, "This, too, shall pass. " It is always true.
As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.
I'll flirt with anyone from garbagemen to grandmothers.
My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.
I was beginning to understand. My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.