Great Aunt Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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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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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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I definitely don't want to have kids ... I don't think I'd be a great mother. I'm a great aunt or friend of a mother…
— Chelsea Handler
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I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt,
— Ann B. Davis
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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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I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They…
— Eric Dickerson
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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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No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness.…
— Tobsha Learner
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When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer…
— Christopher Hitchens
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My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
— David Nicholls
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Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I…
— David Levithan
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This is getting ugly.†– Abigail “Like my great-aunt’s underpants.†– Sundown
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel comes…
— Kerstin Gier
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Your Great-Aunt Muriel doesn't agree, I just met her upstairs while she was giving Fleur the tiara. "She said 'Oh dear, is this the muggle…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
— Wendi Deng Murdoch
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My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great…
— Jamie Dornan
Who Wrote These Great Aunt Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Great Aunt Quotes as follows: