Uncles Quotes - Page 9

• Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.

  Tom Stoppard

  Kings, Father, Son

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• Sleep every chance you get. Eat every chance you get. Those were two of the many lessons that Kat learned at her father’s knee and her uncle’s table.

  Ally Carter

  Father, Sleep, Two

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• Wait. Far be it for me to say this" — Hamish looked around the compartment — "and if anyone tells Uncle Eddie I suggested being an upstanding citizen I'll kill 'em, but aren't there...laws and stuff? I mean, can't you...you know...sue him or something?" asked the boy who had once stolen an entire circus, all three rings.

  Ally Carter

  Mean, Boys, Law

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• ...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

  Smedley Butler

  War, Dark, Age

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• God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  God, Nice, Earthquakes

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• Does Uncle Bob have anything?" "I heard he has an STD." "I mean on the women." "Oh, I have no idea if they have any STDs.

  Darynda Jones

  Mean, Ideas, Doe

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.159, Macmillan

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• I climbed into Misery and called Uncle Bob. “We hooking up?” “Why does everything out of your mouth make me sound incestuous?” “Um, I wasn’t aware that it did. Perhaps you have a guilty conscience.” “Charley.” “Is there something you need to get off your chest? Besides that skank I saw you with the other day?

  Darynda Jones

  Skanks, Mouths, Bob

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.100, Macmillan

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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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• ...Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(:)...The coal companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war (to end all wars, WWI). ...The leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of saddles for the calvary. But there wasn't any calvary overseas!

  Smedley Butler

  War, Dark, People

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• Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and well-educated. He's often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro -by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Men, White

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• One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30 years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally immensing herself in the problems of the students. That gave her $50. The rest of the money came from the death of a rich uncle.

  Milton Berle

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• Of course I want dubs and a candy painted 'lac
  Watch the videos and get the girls in the back
  But if that's what I believe in, and the reason that
  I rap Uncle Sam is my pimp when he puts me on the track

  Macklemore

  Girl, Believe, Rap

  Song: Make The Money

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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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• The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.

  E. O. Wilson

  Father, Son, Nephew

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• Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost his belief in the existence of God said: "The whole horrible structure, based not on the love of God, but on the fear of hell, tumbled down like a house of cards."

  Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

  School, House Of Cards, Years

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• Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Naughty

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1960, Oxford University Press

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• That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian... um, Christ, I lost it. I was going for something thick. So what's with the beard, Grizzly Fouts?

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Kids, Exhibitions

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• The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.

  Arthur Hopcraft

  Sports, Football, Children

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• I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.

  Laurence Sterne

  Hurt, Animal, Hands

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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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• 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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• . . . 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 used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so I was sort of partially Amish. When I go back there now I still get into that culture. I can drive a horse and buggy because they don't use cars. And, of course, there's no electricity. I respect them a lot. The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to like Little House on the Prairie days or something.

  Verne Troyer

  Horse, Aunt, Thinking

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