Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Italians and Greeks have uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents as far as the eye can see.” — Joe Novella Copy Share Image
All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say 'Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!' — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it. — J. B. Pritzker Copy Share Image
I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with… — Carlene Carter 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
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
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
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
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. It's really tough. What are the… — Enrico Colantoni Copy Share Image
“No empire imposed by force or otherwise has ever been without this feature: control of the indigenous by members of their own… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Aunts are to be a pattern and example to all aunts; to be a delight to boys (and girls) and a comfort… — Dave Isay 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
Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let… — Brian X. Foley 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
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 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
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
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
“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've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have… — Donna Tartt 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 identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I have two sisters, a brother and lots of aunts. These are funny, opinionated, not-very-quiet women with big personalities - and that… — Megan Stalter Copy Share Image
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