Aunts Quotes
77 quotes by 76 authors
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Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.
— Bryan Clay
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is…
— Fanny Fern
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I have always maintained the importance of Aunts
— Jane Austen
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[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst…
— Barbara Pym
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In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of…
— Padma Lakshmi
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But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say 'Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!'
— Darren Criss
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Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their whole system is…
— Joanna Lumley
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I felt like I was an outsider. I think what happened to me made me develop this street sense of watching people and working out…
— Tobey Maguire
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I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so I was sort…
— Verne Troyer
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It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and…
— Brooke Shields
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I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting…
— George Lopez
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God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.
— Muhammad
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Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks,…
— Charles Bukowski
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Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let them meet or…
— Brian X. Foley
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My aunts still try to fatten me up.
— Randy Wayne White
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive…
— Alan Lightman
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My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something…
— Laura Linney
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Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a…
— Nicholas Samstag
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I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with…
— Oprah Winfrey
Who Wrote These Aunts Quotes
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