My aunts were not cruel, you understand. They loved to…

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

— Loretta Young

“His life in general had been a neatly wrapped package of lies.”

— Elizabeth Brundage

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,…

— Sara Sheridan

Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts…

— Carlene Carter

“Aunts are to be a pattern and example to all aunts; to be a delight to boys (and girls) and a comfort to their…

— Dave Isay

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

— Daryl Gregory

We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Don’t they put aunts in Turkey in sacks and drop them in the Bosphorus?’ ‘Odalisques, sir, I understand. Not aunts.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.

— Kevin Kwan

I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.

— Dianne Reeves

The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put…

— Marcel Proust

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

— Jane Austen

“Amish children are usually named after aunts or uncles or some other relation. Keeps the family names going.”

— Sarah Price

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