Aunt Quotes - Page 10

• I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.

  Michael Steger

  Practice, Dental, Dentist

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• My aunt put my cousins into a childrens modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.

  Sullivan Stapleton

  Cousin, Agency, Photo Of Me

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• I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.

  Dichen Lachman

  Cousin, Uncles, People

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• A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Uncles, Men

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.19, University of Alabama Press

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• My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

  Teddy Sears

  Sports, Fun, Ambition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.

  Colin Powell

  Love, Mom, Dream

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• Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

  Harry Graham

  Sublime, Steps, Ridiculous

  'Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes' (1899) 'Equanimity'.

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• I sat around the kitchen every Sunday afternoon listening to my mother and aunts talk about the people in the neighborhood. Gossip - I loved it. And that turns out to be the writer's job: to attend to the gossip and spread it as far as you can.

  John Dufresne

  Mother, Jobs, Sunday

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Boys, Likes, Used

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.84, Xist Publishing

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• Harmony glanced to her left, and my gaze followed hers to the living room, where my aunt had died, my cousin had been restored, and I'd whacked a psychotic grim reaper with a cast-iron skillet. Weirdest. Tuesday. Ever.

  Rachel Vincent

  Cousin, Iron, Tuesday

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.273, Harlequin

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• Did I ever tell you,’ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, ‘that that aunt of mine once hatched an egg?’ He paused, deep in thought, and walked slowly to the door before turning again. His lordship of Aubigny, staring after the vanishing form of his brother, received the full splendour of Lymond’s smile. ‘It was a cuckoo,’ said Francis Crawford prosaically, and followed Lennox out.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Brother, Doors, Eggs

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• This is getting ugly.” – Abigail “Like my great-aunt’s underpants.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Ugly, Abigail, Underpants

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• Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

  Margaret Atwood

  May, Ordinary, Said

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Maybe we ought to look at a guy's response to our microwave from now on." Aunt Annie said. Really." Mom said. "The narcissist looks at his reflection in it. The OCD guy thinks you don't keep it clean enough.The antisocial--" Puts his fist through it because it reminds him of his father." Annie said. She'd read all of mom's books, too. And the paranoid one would be jealous of the amount of time you spend cooking." Mom said Were you using that microwave again? Is something going on between the two of you? I caught you looking right at its clock." Annie said.

  Deb Caletti

  Mom, Father, Book

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

  Edith Wharton

  Mother, Exercise, Order

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1906, Delphi Classics

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• Dear Aunt Loretta, Thank you so much for the awesome pants! How did you know I wanted that for Christmas? I love the way the pants look on my legs! All my friends will be so jealous that I have my very own pants. Thank you for making this the best Christmas ever! Sincerely, Greg

  Jeff Kinney

  Jealous, Looks, Legs

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• There was a horrible smell in the kitchen the next morning when Harry went in for breakfast. It seemed to be coming from a large metal tub in the sink. He went to have a look. The tub was full of what looked like dirty rags swimming in gray water. "What's this?" he asked Aunt Petunia. "Your new school uniform," she said. Harry looked in the bowl again. "Oh," he said, "I didn't realize it had to be so wet.

  J. K. Rowling

  Morning, Dirty, School

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• [The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.

  Barbara Pym

  Laughing, Firsts, Dignity

  Barbara Pym (1982). “Less than angels”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Mother, Daughter, Cousin

  "Padma Lakshmi: I Don’t Parent Alone" by Yahoo! Shine interview, celebritybabies.people.com. November 03, 2011.

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• It's not hard to draw from within yourself to play someone protective of her daughter. I have animals and I'm a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and friend, and I can be fiercely protective.

  Tricia Helfer

  Daughter, Mother, Animal

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• If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Wine, Watches, Liquor

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• But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such.)For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the "progressives" nor the "integralists" seem to possess it - the latter even less than the former.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Catholic, Saint, Sense Of Humor

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (2007). “The Office of Peter and the Structure of the Church, 2nd Edition”, p.184, Ignatius Press

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• Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics. Personally, I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie, and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.

  Stephen Colbert

  Football, Country, Funny Thanksgiving

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• All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say 'Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!'

  Darren Criss

  Looks, Look At Me

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• My brother has two children now, so I've been playing aunt Renee. They're two and four. It's chaos. Moms out there, kudos to you. The cool thing about being an aunt is like, I can leave. No offense to my big brother Drew, but that is slavery. I dare you to take a shower. You can't do anything unless they let you. It's a dictatorship. They're little dictators in their crib.

  Renee Zellweger

  Mom, Brother, Children

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