Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your Great-Aunt Muriel doesn't agree, I just met her upstairs while she was giving Fleur the tiara. "She said 'Oh dear, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to get autistic kids out and expose them to things, but do this without any surprises, so they know what… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons. I called them: cousins, aunts, pops, moms. To you? Hoodlums, crackheads, gunmens. To me? Just… — Ka Copy Share Image
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.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay… — K Hari Kumar Copy Share Image
From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven. — Doris Day Copy Share Image
I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it.… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really… — Lydia Ko Copy Share Image
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous. — Sister Parish Copy Share Image
When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
