From day one, my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, everyone has always been around. — T. J. Oshie Copy Share Image
The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
My mum was incredibly resourceful and there were loads of aunts and uncles around who helped. — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
I was raised by my grandmother, my mom, about five or six aunts and female cousins as well. We were all in… — Daniel Jacobs Copy Share Image
I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Mum and Dad used to do a lot of entertaining. We had quite a nice house, so everybody descended on us at… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Always wise aunts come in many guises. There are maiden aunts, dowager aunts, and that delightful creature, the eccentric aunt. I fear… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
“Don’t stop,’ said Lymond pleasantly. ‘You’ve my father, my brother, my late sister and a whole clecking of aunts to get through.… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know… — Tony Danza Copy Share Image
Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“My aunts were not cruel, you understand. They loved to talk, and at every available opportunity they gave away the neatly wrapped… — Ann Howard Creel Copy Share Image
I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins… — Dichen Lachman Copy Share Image
All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house. — Becky G Copy Share Image
I love being around my family. I am very close to my mum, my brother, my grandmother, my aunts - we constantly… — Jourdan Dunn Copy Share Image
The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“She knew one of the great family truths, that aunts always help, whilr moms always think it would be good for you… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved… — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of… — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
I come from a family with many dancers, my aunts learnt dance, so did Kamal Haasan and, as a child I learnt… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
“Don’t they put aunts in Turkey in sacks and drop them in the Bosphorus?’ ‘Odalisques, sir, I understand. Not aunts.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
Mom was a single mother. So three aunts and three uncles and all of mom's friends pitched in as weekend warriors. — Rory O'Malley Copy Share Image
I have a big family. Even though it's only three kids in our family, it's always aunts and uncles and the whole… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Amish children are usually named after aunts or uncles or some other relation. Keeps the family names going.” — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about my mum's family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brought up by… — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
![“[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.” quote by Caitlin Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c49/caitlin-thomas-17205_accustomed_on-journalists-they-are-the-scavengers-o_1349630.png)
![“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.” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/94a/george-orwell-57_aunt_it-england-is-a-family-in-which-the-youn_2287596.jpg)
