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When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.

~Chadwick Boseman

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My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.

~Chance The Rapper

Topics: Church Grandmother Great Huge Huge Part Just Life My Life Part She Woman

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I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother had two daughters, and my mother had two daughters. My sister had a daughter and then finally a son. You should have seen my father with the son. He could not believe that finally there was a boy in the family.

~Chantal Akerman

Topics: Am Believe Boy Could Daughter Daughters Family Father Finally Grandmother Had He Mother Seen Should Sister Son Then Three Two Woman You I Am

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

~Charles Colson

Topics: Grandmother My Own Nixon Over Own Richard Richard Nixon Walk

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Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.

~Charles Palliser

Topics: Bath Century Existence Grandmother Live Living Rather Someone Sort Thought Trying War Way Who 19Th Century

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My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

~Chelsea Clinton

Topics: Day Every Every Day Grandmother Inspire Life Me Parents Personal Personal Life Work

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My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

~Chelsea Clinton

Topics: About Adage Away Been Beginning Challenging Core Grandmother Had Happens Her Lead Life Me More My Life November Passed Public Public Life Recently She Who You

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I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

~Chelsea Clinton

Topics: About Academic Adage Difference Grandmother Happens Help Hope Life Live Making Making A Difference Me Nonprofit Stories Telling Though Will Work You

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I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.'

~Chelsea Clinton

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My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity.

~Chelsea Clinton

Topics: Determined Everyone Feel Grandmother Opportunity Optimism Sense

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