Adriana Trigiani Quotes

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

As a child, I was lucky enough to spend each summer with my grandmother.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant.

I'm reading Sebastian Faulks's 'Birdsong' at the moment. I read it when I was younger but decided to re-read it, as I remembered really liking it at the time.

As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home.

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.

I have very vivid memories of my mother reading to us as kids.

I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my friend.

I always drank chocolate milk growing up and I remember my grandmother would always have it when I would visit her in the Dominican Republic - that's when it all started.