Uncles Quotes - Page 3

• You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

  Dusty Baker

  Dad, Father, Roles

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• It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Conviction, Uncle Sam, Firm

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

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• A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

  David Amram

  Years, Theatre, Dukes

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• There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Widowhood, Earth, Forget

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.10

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• Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.

  Rick Danko

  Country, Artist, Nashville

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• My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

  Robert Duvall

  Ranchers, Said, Could Have Been

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• Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

  Robert Duvall

  Men, Years, Two

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• Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

  Dominic Chianese

  People, Criminals, Watches

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• My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.

  Andy Garcia

  Guy, Littles, Said

  "Man of Style - Andy Garcia". Interview with Mark Morrison, www.oocities.org. January 1999.

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• There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

  Frederic Farrar

  Brother, Names, Palaces

  Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.74

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• The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

  Ben Nicholson

  Grandmother, Organization, Pages

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• But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

  Jason Alexander

  Queens, Heart, Aunt

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• I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.

  Dominic Chianese

  Dresses, Juniors, Way

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• I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

  Russell B. Long

  Thinking, Garters, Term

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• We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do.

  Timothy Bottoms

  Brother, New York, Lots Of Friends

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• My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.

  Ed Bradley

  Father, Hero, Related

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• My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.

  Fred Allen

  Southern, Alabama, Undertaker

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.102, Wildside Press LLC

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• It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

  Steven Seagal

  Mother, Dog, Guy

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• An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

  Sting

  Guitar, Canada, Found

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• Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Relationship, Men, Perfect

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• It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

  Brooke Shields

  Mom, New York, Artist

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• My uncles were all funny. My dad wasn't funny, but my uncles were all funny. Now I go back and I like him better than them, they were manipulative funny.

  Louis C. K.

  Dad, Manipulative, I Like Him

  "The Collected Wisdom of Louis C.K." by Bradford Evans, splitsider.com. February 26, 2013.

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• My grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister and my birth was a big disappointment for her. In it there is a message that I understand very well now about the discrimination against the girl child. My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.

  Saina Nehwal

  Girl, Children, Disappointment

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• My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

  John Boehner

  Growing Up, Dad, Waiting

  John Boehner's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis remembered hearing the shot from the confederate soldiers after the second battle of Bull Run. Amazing to think that he heard that and I studied with one of his last law clerks in college. And that encapsulates almost all of American history.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Running, Mother, College

  Source: www.slate.com

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