Aunt Quotes - Page 18

• I find weddings really boring. They give speeches, your aunt kisses you on the cheek, and you're at a boring table. But it's different when it's your own.

  Isla Fisher

  Kissing, Giving, Different

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

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• An Aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.

  Sara Sheridan

  Children, Safe Haven, Your Side

  "How my niece ended up signing copies of my book" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2011.

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• The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.

  David Miliband

  Wedding, Hands, Years

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

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• Take a little walk down Know You Role Boulevard, hang that right on Jabroni Drive, and then proceed to check your Aunt Jemima no-pancake-havin' ass di-rectly into the Smackdown Hotel!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Wwe, Roles, Littles

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• Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank you very much. My dad competed in the National Spelling Bee. My aunt competed in the National Spelling Bee. My uncle WON the National Spelling Bee. If I can't spell it, I know someone who can. So just bring it on.

  Kristin Cashore

  Uncles, Dad, Fear

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• My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

  Ziggy Marley

  Spiritual, Cousin, Grandmother

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

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• Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science or engineering, and it was taken for granted that the next generation of Chu's were to follow the family tradition. When the dust had settled, my two brothers and four cousins collected three MDs, four Ph.D.s and a law degree. I could manage only a single advanced degree.

  Steven Chu

  Brother, Cousin, Uncles

  Steven Chu - Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1997.

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• Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.

  Calvin Trillin

  People, Trying, Buttons

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

  Pat Conroy

  Uncles, House, Rich

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• It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

  George Orwell

  Uncles, Hands, England

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.

  Ken Spillman

  Jobs, Real, Writing

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• From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

  Robert Breault

  Garden, Thinking, Long Ago

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• My Aunt Marion used to always tell me 'a touch of sun adds an air of intrigue...'

  Tim Quinn

  Air, Add, Sun

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• There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Family, Cousin, Play

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• It's a sweet thing, faith. With it, you can handle any circumstance, any crisis, because you know God always has your back. And when God is for you, who can be against you? Nobody. As my Aunt Hattie says, "One and God are a majority."

  Patti LaBelle

  Faith, Sweet, Majority

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• American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

  Helen Thomas

  Crazy, Politics, Journalism

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• Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!

  Lori Lansens

  Voice, One Day, Used

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.6, Vintage Canada

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