Aunt Quotes - Page 5

• And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Uncles, Balls, Ifs

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.413, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

  Kim Dae-jung

  West Germany, East Germany, Korea

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• I honestly didn't even know who the coach was when I was coming to New York. I just wanted to win a championship; I didn't even know who was coaching. I didn't care. It could have been Aunt Jemima. They could have had the syrup coaching. I was coming here regardless. I just wanted to win a championship here.

  Metta World Peace

  New York, Winning, Coaching

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• Do you have spies in Clan Heavy?” “I have spies everywhere.” I looked at Andrea, who was hoarding bacon on her plate. “She had tea with Mahon’s wife.” Andrea said. Aunt B looked at her. “You and I need to work on your air of mystery.

  Ilona Andrews

  Air, Wife, Tea

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.27, Penguin

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• Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.

  Nicholas Samstag

  Uncles, Military, Patriotic

  Nicholas Samstag (1962). “The Uses of Ineptitude; Or: How Not to Want to Do Better”, Astor-Honor Incorporated

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• I'll just do a round around of the house and make sure the rest of the family are fast asleep. We don't want that sharp-nosed aunt of yours catching us when we find the diamonds." "What diamonds?" "Think positive for once...Which would you rather, diamonds or the remains of a murdered maidservant? It's all a question of attitude.

  Kerstin Gier

  Attitude, Thinking, House

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• ~When Valentina was not even 1 month old, my aunt [gave me the best advice]: 'Put her to sleep yourself every night. Sing to her and cradle her in your arms and sit by her side - every night. Because one day you won't be able to, and it's going to happen really fast.~

  Salma Hayek

  Sleep, Parenting, Night

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• Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.

  Robert Breault

  Baby, Food, Cells

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• My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.

  Chuck Nevitt

  Funny, Sports, Baby

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• I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived. 'I go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand,' Maya Angelou proclaimed in her poem 'Our Grandmothers.' When I move through the world, I bring all my history with me-all the people who paved the way for me are part of who I am.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Brother, Moving

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

  Fanny Fern

  Mother, Cousin, Uncles

  Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.25, The Floating Press

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• I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!'

  Julia Roberts

  Smart, Niece, Lunch

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• I've been, I think, able to stay grounded in such a crazy business, and I attribute that a lot to my family, and especially to my mother. Because, you know, she just was always there to kind of remind me of what priorities should be. O.K., yes, I'm an artist, I'm a performer, but I'm a sister, I'm a daughter, I'm a granddaughter, I'm an aunt. Those things have to be as important, if not more important, than my career.

  Debbie Gibson

  Daughter, Mother, Crazy

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• My aunts still try to fatten me up.

  Randy Wayne White

  Trying, Stills

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• We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.

  Rob Bell

  Brother, Uncles, Real

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• Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was a big enough character to carry a story. If it had to be anyone from Saving Francesca, I thought, it would be Will Trombal or Tara. But the line in Francesca, ‘I want to be the first male in the Mackee family to reach 40 and still have a liver’ stuck with me, and in the end, Tom has been one of the biggest surprises. I’m glad I didn’t kick him out of my head.

  Melina Marchetta

  Character, Thinking, Males

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• I am amazed at the response of my being on the show. Everywhere I go, every young person points at me and says "Hi, Aunt Dolly." Or "Are you Aunt Dolly?" I love doing the show and I love Miley and Billy Ray [Cyrus]. I am proud to be her honorary Godmother.

  Dolly Parton

  Godmother, Rays, Proud

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• Aunt May's values and Spiderman's traumas are kind of what's defined him as a young boy and now that he's becoming a young man, she's there to provide that safe place where he can still be a kid if he needs to be, or know that he has a home base as he's going through all these physical changes. So as long as those essentials are there, we can work on finding the character together.

  Marisa Tomei

  Character, Kids, Home

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I did not have any problem with speaking up because my mother, my family, my grandmother, my aunt - I grew up in a family dominated by women - always encouraged me to do so. And if a girl is unafraid, then the world is her oyster.

  Ava DuVernay

  Girl, Mother, Oysters

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the north of iraq. The architect was a close friend of my father's and he used to come to our house with the drawings and models. I remember seeing the model in our living room and I think it triggered something, as I was completely intrigued by it.

  Zaha Hadid

  Memories, Father, Thinking

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Wizards, Dear

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• Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Cynical, Missing

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.

  Isabel Allende

  Believe, Worst Enemy, Years

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• We'll be there, Harry," said Ron "What?" "At your Aunt and Uncle's house," said Ron, "And then we'll go with you wherever you're going." "No-" said Harry quickly; he hadn't counted on this, he had meant them to understand that he was undertaking the most dangerous journey alone. "You said it once before," said Hermione quickly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we? We're with you whatever happens.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Journey, House

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• Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Islands, Secret

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.86, A&C Black

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