I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.
Connie Francis

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.
George Eads

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
Bob Edwards

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.
Suzanne Farrell

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
Lisa Bonet

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
Carol Burnett

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.
Jayne Meadows

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.
Charles Colson

I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it.
Margot Kidder

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.
Sara Paretsky

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
Vivien Leigh

I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear.
Prince William

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett

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 it.
Camryn Manheim

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.
Juliette Binoche

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

My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.
Irene Cara

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
Bob Balaban