Aunt Quotes - Page 18

• When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  East, Earth, Lines

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.274

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• These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.

  Frank Carlucci

  Middle East, Elements, Can Do

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• When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.

  Nina Hagen

  Growing Up, East, Said

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• My father taught me about having principles and how to treat people with respect. My aunt also taught me how to keep a perspective on everything that happens to you. So you learn to be humble and not take your success for granted.

  George Clooney

  Father, Humble, People

  "George Clooney: 'Things are going well...'". www.mirror.co.uk. March 07, 2010.

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• Take a little walk down Know You Role Boulevard, hang that right on Jabroni Drive, and then proceed to check your Aunt Jemima no-pancake-havin' ass di-rectly into the Smackdown Hotel!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Wwe, Roles, Littles

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• Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank you very much. My dad competed in the National Spelling Bee. My aunt competed in the National Spelling Bee. My uncle WON the National Spelling Bee. If I can't spell it, I know someone who can. So just bring it on.

  Kristin Cashore

  Uncles, Dad, Fear

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• My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

  Ziggy Marley

  Spiritual, Cousin, Grandmother

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

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• American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

  Helen Thomas

  Crazy, Politics, Journalism

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• It's a sweet thing, faith. With it, you can handle any circumstance, any crisis, because you know God always has your back. And when God is for you, who can be against you? Nobody. As my Aunt Hattie says, "One and God are a majority."

  Patti LaBelle

  Faith, Sweet, Majority

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• There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Family, Cousin, Play

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• My Aunt Marion used to always tell me 'a touch of sun adds an air of intrigue...'

  Tim Quinn

  Air, Add, Sun

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• From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

  Robert Breault

  Garden, Thinking, Long Ago

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• My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.

  Ken Spillman

  Jobs, Real, Writing

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• It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

  George Orwell

  Uncles, Hands, England

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

  Pat Conroy

  Uncles, House, Rich

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• Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.

  Calvin Trillin

  People, Trying, Buttons

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science or engineering, and it was taken for granted that the next generation of Chu's were to follow the family tradition. When the dust had settled, my two brothers and four cousins collected three MDs, four Ph.D.s and a law degree. I could manage only a single advanced degree.

  Steven Chu

  Brother, Cousin, Uncles

  Steven Chu - Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1997.

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