Aunt Quotes - Page 9

• Women and LBGT people have the advantage that they are everybody's son, daughter, cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle. They are in a position to change hearts, and you saw it happen actually. African-Americans, not so much. They are separated from the white oppressive population by geography, housing, segregation, centuries of slavery. There is a tremendous wall between black America and white. I would say you open the door with the force of law, and then you can start to change hearts.

  Linda Hirshman

  Daughter, Cousin, Wall

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• I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer, many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical, my grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood. My mother wrote an original song to teach me the days of the week.

  India.Arie

  Mother, Song, Uncles

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I thought Mike Pence, upon reflection to me, came across a little bit like your favorite aunt who refuses, in spite of first-person evidence that grandpa has been drunk and disorderly in public, that, says, no, no, grandpa would never do that, even though grandpa is being taken off in handcuffs.

  Mark Shields

  Taken, Reflection, Grandpa

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Dad says that everyone invented baklava.” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes.
  “Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Memories, Dad, Father

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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, Looks, Littles

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

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• Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Should Have, Triumph

  Agatha Christie (1986). “Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection”, Random House Value Publishing

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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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• I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.

  Hayley Atwell

  Dad, Virginia, Cities

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• Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

  Ray Davies

  Art, Media, Noses

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• I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

  Little Richard

  Uncles, Long, Infidelity

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• My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that.

  Dree Hemingway

  Mother, Children, Names

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• Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.

  Lydia Ko

  Uncles, Dad, Golf

  US Golf Association Interview, www.usga.org. August 11, 2012.

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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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• Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.

  Linda Sunshine

  Sibling, Stupid, Dna

  Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.26, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

  Jane Smiley

  Mom, Uncles, Grandfather

  "A Few Remedies for the Right to Bear Arms" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons.
  I called them: cousins, aunts, pops, moms.
  To you? Hoodlums, crackheads, gunmens.
  To me? Just neighbors, classmates, young friends.

  Ka

  Mom, Cousin, Rap

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• From age 23 to 44 - I'm 45 now - I was always in need of money, and I was especially in need of it from 23 to about 34, and my great aunt would always give me money, a hundred bucks, every two months or so, and a lot of times that hundred bucks made a huge difference - I could eat or pay a small bill. It kept me going. She gave me money. It was very loving.

  Jonathan Ames

  Two, Differences, Giving

  "The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Ames". Interview with Joshua Furst, therumpus.net. July 29, 2009.

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• Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fashion, Ideas, Might

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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• No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy.

  Tobsha Learner

  Strong, Feminist, Independence

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• I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.

  Timothy Shriver

  Cousin, Uncles, Past

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• It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world.

  Toni Morrison

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.

  Ray Bradbury

  Wish, Dresses, Looks

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Stars, Trying, May

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1949). “A religious rebel: the letters of "H. W. S." (Mrs. Pearsall Smith)”

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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, Night, Black

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• It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

  David Hockney

  Mother, Brother, Uncles

  1978 David Hockney.

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