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

I’m not fit company for man or beast.

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

Love or not, I wouldn’t subject a wife to the road. It’s punishment.

I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That’s when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.

In order to play and write, it’s unique – you either do one or the other.

I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother’s house.

People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother’s house.

I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother

One might almost fear,” writes a thoughtful woman, “seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration – and toughest critic.

My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He’s [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he’ll live on.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.