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“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”
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“My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.”
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“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better.”
Source : "Starve the Poor" by James Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2010. 
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“I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.”
Source : "Unconditional Love: Remembering My Grandmother" by Andre Leon Talley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2013.
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“Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.”
Source : Andrei Codrescu (1989). “Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
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“Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.”
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“Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!”
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“All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.”
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“My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.”
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“Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no means either easy or very popular. Dense, intricate, exceedingly compact, his poetry has always had great visionary force.”
