Aunt Quotes

• The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

  Daryl Gregory

  Parent, Substitutes, Conspirators

  Daryl Gregory (2015). “Harrison Squared”, p.111, Macmillan

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• I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

  Jane Austen

  Importance

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.97, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.

  Bailee Madison

  World, Want

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

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• My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

  Tyra Banks

  Light, Used, Bulbs

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• I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

  Temple Grandin

  Mother, Teacher, Giving Up

  "Temple Grandin on her struggles and ‘yak yaks’" by Joan Raymond, www.nbcnews.com. February 02, 2010.

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• It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Middle East, World, East

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• Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Brother, Night, Your Brother

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Mother, Kitchen, Grandfather

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• When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Doctors, Climbing

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• My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Mother, Inspiration, Creativity

  "Get To Know Giada". "Time" Interview, content.time.com. June 2, 2006.

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• I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Mother, Jobs, Niece

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• Maybe I'll just be a good aunt.

  Kim Kardashian

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• I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

  Cher

  Christmas, Japan, America

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• Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Middle East, World, West

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• Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.

  Sara Sheridan

  Kids, Opportunity, Ideas

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• We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

  Vera Farmiga

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mother

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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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  God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.

  Muhammad

  God, Mother Daughter, Religious

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• Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Children, Animal, Littles

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Warfare Collection – Complete Historiographical Military Works of Rudyard Kipling: Sea Warfare, The Irish Guards in the Great War, A Fleet in Being, America’s Defenceless Coasts and many more: Including the Autobiography of the Author, France at War, The War in the Mountains, The Graves of the Fallen, The New Army in Training”, p.803, e-artnow

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• Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

  Rose Macaulay

  Animal, Climbing, Camels

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• But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves.

  Rachel Vincent

  Uncles, Planning, Murder

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.100, Harlequin

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• They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Royal, Happens

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• Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

  Donna Tartt

  Couple, Book, Maidens

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• Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

  Sister Parish

  Sentimental, Members, Our Family

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• The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

  William Shenstone

  Lasts, Economy, Shows

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