My Uncle Quotes
109 quotes by 102 authors
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I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.
— George H. W. Bush
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My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
— Fred Allen
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house...so he moved.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's…
— Terrence Howard
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My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two…
— Greg Kinnear
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My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
— Margaret Smith
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My uncle always said, ‘Hurry slowly.’ I guess [it means] have the intensity of love but don’t rush into it. Have the full feeling but…
— Ed Sheeran
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By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts,…
— James Agee
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My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I…
— Dick Dale
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The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy…
— Chuck Barris
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And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my…
— Alveda King
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My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
— Dave Van Ronk
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By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in…
— Spencer Bachus
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How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and…
— Nikola Tesla
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I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really…
— Catherine Bell
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She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot…
— Louise Fletcher
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I’m very proud to say that Buddy MacMaster is my uncle. He gives credibility to what I do and I’m glad I can carry that…
— Natalie MacMaster
Who Wrote These My Uncle Quotes
102 authors contributed a total of 109 My Uncle Quotes, led by these top contributors: