Uncles Quotes - Page 19

• When I'm 18 years old, I'm at a friend's house. And his uncle looks me in me eye - you know, by this time I'm an over achiever, a pretty good student, etc. And he said I have the answer to your problems. I have the solution to your pain. And he held up this book. It's a bible. I didn't know what it was.

  Paula White

  Pain, Book, Eye

  Source: culteducation.com

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• I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.

  Jill Stein

  Use, Language, Kind

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.

  Alanis Morissette

  Husband, Hero, Son

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• You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!

  Indira Gandhi

  Cousin, Brother, Blood

  Source: sangam.org

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• He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.316, Open Road Media

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• My dear children!" Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack. "Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye. "Nellie!" Amy said. "Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Sorry, Eye

  Rick Riordan (2016). “The 39 Clues 1: The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones”, p.140, Scholastic UK

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• My uncle was a cop, a career cop, on the beat in downtown Chicago. He was my hero when I was growing up.

  Mike Pence

  Growing Up, Hero, Careers

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I was so lucky. I had a dad and a mom that loved me and my sisters so much. My Uncle Mike and Uncle Frank were married. They must be together for fortysomething years now. Long story short, there was never any stigma attached to that. At the youngest age, I remember my dad saying, "Sometimes men love men and women love women. It's nature.

  Michael Buble

  Mom, Dad, Men

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.

  C. S. Lewis

  Taken, People, Use

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia 7-in-1 Bundle with Bonus Book, Boxen”, p.52, HarperCollins UK

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• My uncle developed the training philosophy. His idea of good tennis training is basically quite simple: you must try to gain time.

  Rafael Nadal

  Philosophy, Simple, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What happened to your foot?" "I had a little disagreement with an eagle --stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between a hawk and a pigeon. I had to educate him. He bit me while I was tearing out a sizable number of his wing feathers." "Uncle," Polgara said reproachfully. "He started it.

  David Eddings

  Stupid, Eagles, Wings

  David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey

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• If we are enforcing what should be the rules around Medicare and making sure the people are getting the bang for the buck, it's not going to be possible for insurance companies to simply pass on those costs to Medicare recipients, because ultimately it's Uncle Sam that's paying for those services anyway.

  Barack Obama

  People, Bangs, Cost

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.

  Stephen Spender

  Writing, Views, Balance

  1951 World within World, p.77.

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• Amy Cahill didn't believe in omens. But black snow was falling, he earth was rumbling beneath her feet, her brother was meowing, and her uncle Alistair was prancing on the beach in pink pajamas. She had to admit, the signs were not promising.

  Peter Lerangis

  Beach, Brother, Believe

  Peter Lerangis (2011). “The 39 Clues #7: The Viper's Nest”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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• Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts, my cousings of both sexes. So ever so often the police came and took them away, indiscriminately. Well, the fact that they arrested both my father and mother, both my grandfather and grandmother, both an uncle and an aunt, made me accustomed to looking on men and women with the same eyes, on an absolute plane of equality.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Sex, Father

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Bobby's World touched a lot of people. That's why the family's last name is Generic. Uncle Ted is based on uncles we've all had.

  Howie Mandel

  Names, People, World

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• Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.

  Rick Riordan

  Sound, News, Sadie

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• People say, "Look, your book [Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle] is about tall tales." And I said, "No, you don't understand, OK? The book is tall tales, OK, by me. But look, those tall tales are my life, OK? And look, I added some spices in there. That's the five percent. You know the one about the wolves chasing me? The only thing about that - they wasn't wolves, they was coyotes".

  Si Robertson

  Book, Favorite Uncle, Ducks

  Source: www.gq.com

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• That's not our problem, that's America's problem. If the average American knew the trouble that Uncle Sam is in all over this earth, they could see that it - we are closer toward getting a separate territory in this country than the integrationists are toward getting integration.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Average, America

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• Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me.

  Deon Cole

  Cousin, Children, Trying

  Source: newsblaze.com

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• Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?

  Malcolm X

  Country, America, Dollars

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• My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Dad, Cancer, Grandfather

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• Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Kings, Teaching

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Different, Want, Matter

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Strong, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.gq.com

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