Aunts Quotes
77 quotes by 76 authors
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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
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Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a…
— Paul O'Grady
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I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.
— Robin Tunney
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Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of…
— Donna Tartt
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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
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There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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…
— George Orwell
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I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
— Doris Day
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Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science or…
— Steven Chu
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The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.
— David Lloyd George
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I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.
— Hayley Atwell
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We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we…
— Rob Bell
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Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.
— Amos Lee
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Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even…
— Jane Smiley
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I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I,…
— William Butler Yeats
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You deliver 2,000 babies or better - 3,000 by that time. And that's, you know, at minimum, three people each. And then if you take…
— Tom Coburn
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I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that…
— William J. Clinton
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When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.
— Mario Batali
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
— Vera Farmiga
Who Wrote These Aunts Quotes
76 authors contributed a total of 77 Aunts Quotes, led by these top contributors: