Aunt Quotes - Page 15

• I love my family but my family - they're the type of people that never let you forget anything you ever did... I was in the first grade Christmas play - I'm playing Mary. Now, during the course of the play, I dropped the baby Jesus... They still talk about this. I go to my family reunion, and one of my cousins just had a baby. So I'm like, 'Oh, that's a cute little baby. Let me hold the baby...' And my aunt runs over, 'Don't you give her that baby! You know she dropped the baby Jesus!'

  Wanda Sykes

  Cute, Running, Baby

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• My support group - my mom, my dad, my sisters, my brothers-in-law, my immediate nieces and nephews, my immediate family like Aunt Donna - I know I can trust them. Most of the other people...they never called me before, they never said "I love you" before, they never wanted to take a picture with me at family reunions. It's like, don't do it now...You win the lottery and all of a sudden everybody's your best friend.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank nor anyone else had ever had to teach her: that if you wanted something to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

  Richard Yates

  Knowing, Parent, Done

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• If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.

  Gail Zappa

  Uncles, Memories, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place.

  Olivia Palermo

  Sports, Fashion, Growing Up

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My mom, she got taken away from me when I was 14 years old. She is incarcerated. My sister was incarcerated. I was homeless. When my mom went away when I was 14... I was forced to live with my aunt. My aunt, she doesn't like rap music. She thinks rap music is the devil's music. Basically she said, "Yo, if you are going to do music you can't do it in my house."

  Sean Kingston

  Mom, Rap, Taken

  "Sean Kingston Talks About His Hot Song". Interview with Alicia Quarles, www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2007.

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• Even now, hearing the debates about Medicaid, the suggestion that somehow we could save money by cutting Medicaid strikes a chord in me personally. It seems there are some other ways we can save money rather than making it harder for people like my aunt to get health care.

  Josh Earnest

  Cutting, People, Care

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• My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don't think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood. However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Cousin, Uncles, Kids

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• I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between my grandmothers, aunts, older female cousins, and of course my mother, I was pretty much predominantly raised by women, as they make up most of my family anyway.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Mother, Cousin, Female

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• Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And it gelled. He made all the sense in the world to me. I got addicted to his albums, and then Belafonte and Odetta - they were the people who seemed to fuse things that were important to me into music. I think Pete the most because he did what he did to the point where he took those enormous risks and then paid for them.

  Joan Baez

  Thinking, People, Risk

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.

  Geena Davis

  Impact, Understanding, World

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

  Doris Day

  Cousin, Uncles, Heaven

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• One of my favorite places in San-Francisco is Aunt Charlies drag show. You pay $3 and see shows that literally give you goose bumps and bring you to tears. As a performer, you know they're giving 100% and you can't help but cry.

  Christopher Owens

  San Francisco, Giving, Tears

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Cousin, Uncles

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Don’t mind me,” I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.” “No, you diddn’t,” Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasn’t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little. Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.

  Ally Carter

  Hair, July, Self

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• Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Simple, Language

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• You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel comes along and rakes it all up again." Caroline giggled. She was probably imagining Aunt Glenda as a camel. "This is not a TV series, Maddy," said Lady Arista sharply. "Thank goodness, no, it isn't," said Great-aunt Maddy. "If it were, I'd have lost track of the plot ages ago.

  Kerstin Gier

  Thinking, Long Ago, Track

  Kerstin Gier (2014). “The Ruby Red Trilogy”, p.225, Macmillan

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• He isn’t so much flirting,” Cerise murmured. “Either he doesn’t like me or he doesn’t know how.” “Of course he likes you. You’re lovely. He probably just doesn’t get it. Some men have to be hit over the head with it. Her aunt rolled her eyes. “I thought I’d have to draw your uncle Jean a giant sign. That or kidnap him and have my evil way with him, until he got the message.

  Ilona Andrews

  Uncles, Eye, Flirting

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• Ambassador Winters, allow me to introduce my aunt Abby and her....boyfriend.' Townsed tensed. Abby glared. And Rebecca Baxter looked like she was going to choke on her chewing gum.

  Ally Carter

  Winter, Gum, Ambassadors

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.125, Hachette UK

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• It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Strong, Passion, Men

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.192, Booklassic

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• I grabbed Aunt Prue's tiny hand, her fingers as small as bare twigs in winter. I closed my eyes and took her other hand, twisting my strong fingers together with her frail ones. I rested my forehead against our hands and closed my eyes. I imagined lifting my head up and seeing her smiling, the tape and tubes gone. I wondered if wishing was the same thing as praying. If hoping for something badly enough could make it happen.

  Kami Garcia

  Strong, Eye, Winter

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• And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Letters, Might

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.243, BookBaby

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• We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

  Margaret Atwood

  Choices, Dying, Too Much

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You mean he thinks I'm going to get MORE offers?" Kim said, appalled. "He doesn't seem to be the only one that thinks so." Mairelon said. "Aunt Agatha mentioned it to me yesterday afternoon. Is there anyone, or would you rather I turn the lot of them away?" Kim shook her head. "There isn't anyone." Except you.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Mean, Thinking, Yesterday

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• I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.

  Jessie J

  Daughter, Niece, Hard Work

  "Jessie J: 'I'm a hard worker. I want to be great at everything I do'" by Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2013.

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