My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.
Michel Legrand

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.
Emanuel Celler

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.
Kevin Richardson

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.
Wayne Wonder

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
Carol Burnett

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
Carol Burnett

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.
Michelle Shocked

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.
James Earl Jones

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

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.
Julie Walters

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
Mary A. Ward

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.
Rita Coolidge

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
Billy Strayhorn

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.
Cassandra Wilson

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.
Ellen DeGeneres

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.
James Earl Jones

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
Cornelia Funke

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.
Koichi Tanaka

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.
Richard Lewis

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.
Colin Firth