Aunts And Uncles Quotes

• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

  George Lopez

  Uncles, Couple, Fighting

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• But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Easter, Cousin, Horse

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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• Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Brother, Uncles, Powerful

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• I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

  Robert Cormier

  Uncles, Believe, Book

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• My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Cousin, Uncles

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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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, Uncles

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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

  Uncles, Queens, Heart

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• Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

  Bryan Clay

  Cousin, Uncles, Aunt

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• Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

  Amos Lee

  Mother, Uncles, Father

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• My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

  Jeff Ross

  Uncles, Sarcasm, Aunt

  "Comedy, Then and Now: Laughing With the Legends of Stand-Up From the 1800’s to 2010" by Steve North, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2010.

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• When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.

  Mario Batali

  Cousin, Uncles, Children

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January, 2004.

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• I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Cousin, Uncles, Aunt

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• Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Inspirational, Family, Mean

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• I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

  Agatha Christie

  Uncles, Aunt, Looks

  Agatha Christie (2011). “Miss Marple – Miss Marple and Mystery: The Complete Short Stories (Miss Marple)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.' You will, will you?' Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Aunt, Littles

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.45, Pottermore

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• I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.

  Sarah Dessen

  Cousin, Uncles, Sibling

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.132, Penguin

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• Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical time.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Encouragement, Cousin, Brother

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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, Uncles, Aunt

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• Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Family, Fashion, Uncles

  T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D. (1992). “TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE”

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• I am the lucky duck because I have family . My wonderful aunt and uncle are letting me crash on their couch, which isn't really a couch...I have a room! It's been kind of a blessing for the cast because all of us have gotten so close, not knowing anyone in Atlanta. All the guys on the show have become kind of like brothers, and all of us girls are pretty inseparable.

  Candice Accola

  Girl, Brother, Uncles

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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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, Uncles, Aunt

  Source: capro.info

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• I'd sort of dabbled in Black Magic, not practicing it, but I was interested in it. All these horrible things kept happening to me - a lot of my aunts and uncles started dying and I was seeing all these bloody things visiting me during the night.

  Geezer Butler

  Uncles, Aunt, Night

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• I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts and uncles), living as boldly as they want to be.

  Michael Hyatt

  Art, Uncles, Swimming

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• You deliver 2,000 babies or better - 3,000 by that time. And that's, you know, at minimum, three people each. And then if you take grandparents or grandparents of siblings and aunts and uncles, you know, you get - a 100,000 votes outta that

  Tom Coburn

  Baby, Uncles, Sibling

  "Sen. Tom Coburn: A proud contrarian". "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. December 21, 2014.

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