Aunt Quotes - Page 12

• For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Time, Liars, Fire

  Hilaire Belloc (1957). “Cautionary Tales for Children”, p.7, Library of Alexandria

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• Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

  Tori Amos

  Niece, Years, Names

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• Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let them meet or play with them. You just showed them pictures of them, and told them to memorize their names. Each day you'd have them recite the names, over and over again. You'd say, "OK, this is a picture of your great-aunt Beatrice. Her husband was your great-uncle Earnie. They had three children, your uncles Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo. Harpo married your aunt Leonie ... yadda, yadda, yadda."

  Brian X. Foley

  Education, Cousin, Uncles

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• Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Lying, Believe, Eye

  Hilaire Belloc (1957). “Cautionary Tales for Children”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Food, Virginia, Comforting

  "Coming to a Freezer Near You: Pickle Pops" by Elena Ferretti, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2010.

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• I felt like I was an outsider. I think what happened to me made me develop this street sense of watching people and working out what made them tick, wondering whether I could trust them or not. I went to a lot of schools along the coast in California, made few friends and stayed with aunts, uncles and grandparents while my folks tried to make ends meet. It was tough. We had no money.

  Tobey Maguire

  Uncles, School, Thinking

  "Tobey's Lonely Childhood Will Help Him In Spider-Man Role" by wenn.com, January 31, 2001.

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• I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so I was sort of partially Amish. When I go back there now I still get into that culture. I can drive a horse and buggy because they don't use cars. And, of course, there's no electricity. I respect them a lot. The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to like Little House on the Prairie days or something.

  Verne Troyer

  Horse, Uncles, Thinking

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• Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

  Rufus Wainwright

  My Boyfriend, Care, Littles

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• I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Dog, Uncles

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• Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.

  Barry Nelson

  Crazy, Taken, Years

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• My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

  Edward Abbey

  Giving, Age, Three

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.

  Angela Bassett

  Mom, Thinking, Play

  "Angela's assets". Interview with David Emer, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2001.

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• It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn't get it.

  John Waters

  Gay, Black And White, Animal

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• So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated—like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’ or limps her wrist to suggest someone’s gay.

  David Plotz

  Gay, Names, People

  "Why Slate will no longer refer to Washington’s NFL team as the Redskins". www.slate.com. August 8, 2013.

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• The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.

  George Clooney

  Motivational, Dad, Should Have

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• Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Morality, Wells

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

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• Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.

  Ernest Gaines

  Country, Believe, Men

  Ernest J. Gaines (2004). “A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel”, p.255, Vintage

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• I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. I’m an orphan, and someday I’ll be a lawyer. That’s what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night.

  Roberto Bolano

  Uncles, School, Night

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• My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Reading, Said, Dickens

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• Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Brother, Uncles, Powerful

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• I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

  Felicia Day

  Acting, Actresses, Enjoyed

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.

  Louise Erdrich

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Florida, House

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• My aunt was a fashion model and I happened to go to her agency with her, one day, when I was five. A talent agent said, "You should come talk to us." I did a few things. I did an indie movie and commercials, and stuff.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Fashion, Agency, One Day

  Source: collider.com

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• When I got the episode where Spider-Man meets Aunt May (voiced by Misty Lee), it was another one of those things where I was like, "I can't believe I have a scene with Aunt May. That's just amazing to me." And they drew her a lot younger and hotter then the Aunt May that I remember.

  Clark Gregg

  Believe, Men, Spiders

  Source: collider.com

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