Uncles Quotes - Page 21

• The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

  Adam DeVine

  Mother, Honesty, Lying

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

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• Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his amorous passions was never diverted from their lawful objects. The proud titles of Imperial greatness were adorned by the tender names of a faithful husband, an indulgent father; his uncle was raised, by his affectionate esteem, to the rank of a second parent.

  Edward Gibbon

  Husband, Father, Passion

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus”, p.26, 谷月社

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• I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.

  Gene Autry

  Strong, Ambition, Mean

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• My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.

  David Copperfield

  Fire, Years, House

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• [Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

  Don Herold

  Dog, Art, Entertainment

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• I'm Uncle Snoop. That's the name I've been given in the industry because I'm like an Uncle to all of the rappers whether they are older than me or younger than me and I love giving advice. If I feel like they need some information, I give it to them, I sit them down and talk to them. I try to get all of the rappers on one page of peace, love and just having soul and just being about representing this music.

  Snoop Dogg

  Rapper, Names, Giving

  Interview with Ashahed M. Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. August 13, 2010.

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• Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Dark, Dust

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.429

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• The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts.

  Tony Danza

  Children, Grandmother, Aunt

  "Q&A: Tony Danza on Don Jon, Fake Deaths, and Scarlett Johansson". Interview with Danielle Bacher, www.esquire.com. September 27, 2013.

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• Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Girl, Aunt, Boys

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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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• My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants.

  Thom Yorke

  Play, Lap, Pants

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• A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cousin, Men, Silence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.350, Library of America

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• No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

  Max Lucado

  Teacher, Children, School

  Max Lucado (2014). “Dad Time: Savoring the God-Given Moments of Fatherhood”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."

  Woody Guthrie

  Years, Sea, Rivers

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• But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Religious, Sex, Women

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.193

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• I had a very crazy aunt and uncle who we traded my brother Webster to for a Siamese cat. It was heaven to live with my aunt and uncle because you got spoiled to death.

  Rex Smith

  Brother, Crazy, Cat

  "New Again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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• Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.

  George Tahdooahnippah

  Father, Native American, School

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• As I've gotten older, the parts have diminished. I liked it when I was younger, I could always play the lead in the movie and I could do all the romantic scenes with the women, and it was fun and I liked to play that. Now, I'm older and I'm reduced to playing the backstage doorman or the uncle or something. I don't really love that so occasionally, when a part comes up, I'll play it.

  Woody Allen

  Fun, Play, Scene

  "Woody Allen Talks TO ROME WITH LOVE, the Importance of Music in His Films, How He Feels About Improvisation, and His Outlook on Retirement". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.

  Rob Bell

  Brother, Aunt, Church Bells

  Source: capro.info

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• I would start by writing to an adult, maybe a high school teacher, or maybe an aunt or uncle, and writing and telling them why you want to go to a particular university. That's probably what you would actually sound like. Then write your letter to the university, and put those 2 versions in front of you, and look at the difference between those 2 things.

  David Sedaris

  Teacher, Writing, School

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 8, 2014.

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• We don't run out of stories, because of the characters. But also every year, the NFL, like a crazy rich uncle we never see, just drops some stories off at our door.

  Jeff Schaffer

  Running, Crazy, Character

  "'The League' Bosses on the Final Season and Their Best Draft Concept Yet". Interview with Dave McCoy, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 9, 2015.

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• You could say that evil is contagious in that we have this mesmerizing mentor in Uncle Charlie who comes into your life. Every person has a seed of evil inside them, and when you come across such a mesmerizing mentor, he is able to successfully turn it into a flower of evil.

  Park Chan-wook

  Flower, Evil, Mentor

  "Park Chan-wook, Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode Talk STOKER, First Impressions to the Script, Reactions to the Completed Film and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 24, 2013.

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• My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.

  Michael Moore

  Hero, Coward, Taught

  Michael Moore @MMFlint, twitter.com. January 18, 2015.

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• You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out of your pocket to pay Uncle Sam because the tax is paid based on accretion.

  Scott Walker

  Years, Pockets, Income

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• When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, Parent, Grandfather

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