Uncles Quotes - Page 16

• And I will not be beaten by that jackass." "Jackass?" said Foaly, wounded. "My favorite uncle is a jackass.

  Eoin Colfer

  Favorite Uncle, My Favorite, Said

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• I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!

  J. K. Rowling

  Magic, Fool, Insult

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• Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.)

  Tom Angleberger

  Responsibility, Men, Spiders

  Tom Angleberger (2012). “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda”, p.110, Abrams

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• Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

  Charles Dickens

  Mean, Merry Christmas, Nephew

  Charles Dickens (2007). “SAT Words from Literature - A Christmas Carol”, p.11, Prestwick House Inc

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• He [Uncle Vernon] held up the envelope in which Mrs. Weasley’s letter had come, and Harry had to fight down a laugh. Every bit of it was covered in stamps except for a square inch on the front, into which Mrs. Weasley had squeezed the Dursleys’ address in minute writing. “She did put enough stamps on, then,” said Harry, trying to sound as though Mrs. Weasley’s was a mistake anyone could make.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mistake, Writing, Fighting

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• ...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied calmly. "How did you reach that conclusion?" Beldin demanded. "Because there's no such thing as an empty place, uncle. There are always creatures around --wild animals, mice, insects, birds --and they can all hear." "But what if there weren't? What if the woods are truly empty?" "Why waste your time talking about an impossibility?

  David Eddings

  Animal, Talking, Bird

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• A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent

  Irwin Schiff

  Doe, Taxation, Want

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• Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Atheist, Buddhist

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, p. 375, 1965.

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• . . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Dog, Hurt, Taken

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• I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel.

  Andy Cohen

  Sexy, Aunt, Thinking

  "Bravo's Andy Cohen shares his story in the Castro". Interview with Sarah Adler, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2012.

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• It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns

  Molly O'Neill

  Morning, Drinking, Drunk

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• I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak,
  Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Swings, Hip Hop

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• Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best.

  Garrison Keillor

  Song, Singing, Albums

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• You know how everybody has that one weird creepy uncle? Well, Seth Green looks like he got raped by all of them.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Creepy, Looks, Green

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• The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Hair, Technique

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• My uncle always said, ‘Hurry slowly.’ I guess, it means, have the intensity of love but don’t rush into it. Have the full feeling but take it slow. Ease into it.

  Ed Sheeran

  Mean, Feelings, Ease

  "Ed Sheeran Talks Tattoos, Taylor Swift, and Drinking Tequila with the Royal Family". Interview with Hilary Sheinbaum, www.elle.com. July 12, 2013.

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• My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

  Lena Dunham

  Thinking, Remember, Lawyer

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• There are 3 kinds of magic in our world. The peddling little magician magic like Uncle Andrew in 'The Magicians Newphew' where people mess around with things they don't understand. It's movie magic. Then there is the magic of the evil side of things. The demonic forces. And that's not really magic... it's corruption of what really exists. And then finally there is the magic of the Holy Spirit of God which is the creation and maintenence of the universe. We don't understand it... and we haven't the faintest idea how He does it. But it's real. That's the deep magic.

  Douglas Gresham

  Real, Our World, Ideas

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• When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

  Brian Eno

  Lying, Done, Eccentric

  "Lessons in how to lie about Iraq" by Brian Eno, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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• Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends. . . . When Arjuna thus saw his kinsmen face to face in both lines of battle, he was overcome by grief and despair and thus he spoke with a sinking heart.

  Juan Mascaro

  Brother, Father, Grief

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• On the whole, my family had always adopted a reserved attitude toward Zionism; my great-uncle Edmond had acted on his own in generously supporting Jewish Palestine, for reasons more humanitarian and religious than political. But the devastation caused by the war and the extermination of six million Jews radically changed all of our former attitudes. The idea of a Jewish homeland acquired an intense emotional appeal; I myself became an ardent Zionist.

  Guy de Rothschild

  Religious, Attitude, War

  Guy De Rothschild (1985). “The Whims of Fortune: The Memoirs of Guy de Rothschild”, Random House Inc

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• Got a house on the hill, cost a couple of mill, Juicy J got bank like Uncle Phil.

  Juicy J

  Couple, Rap, House

  Song: One Of Those Nights, Album: Stay Trippy, 2013

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• I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'

  Larry Hagman

  Cousin, Brother, Father

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• My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Father, Islands, Brooklyn

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• When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

  Pope Francis

  Girl, Intellectual, Her Beauty

  "In 2012 interview, Pope Francis (then-Cardinal Bergoglio) reveals secret of celibacy". Interview with Rabbi Abraham Skorka, aleteia.org. March 18, 2013.

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