Uncle Quotes
416 quotes by 326 authors
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted…
— Margaret Atwood
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The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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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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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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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I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends…
— Andy Cohen
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My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.
— Chuck Nevitt
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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 guess of all my uncles, I liked Uncle Caveman the best. We called him Uncle Caveman because he lived in a cave and because…
— Jack Handey
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Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and…
— Malcolm X
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One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30 years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally immensing herself in the problems of…
— Milton Berle
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The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.
— E. O. Wilson
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Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!
— William Shakespeare
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That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian... um, Christ, I lost it. I was going for something thick. So…
— Dennis Miller
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I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why…
— Laurence Sterne
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A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40…
— Irwin Schiff
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On the whole, my family had always adopted a reserved attitude toward Zionism; my great-uncle Edmond had acted on his own in generously supporting Jewish…
— Guy de Rothschild
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Got a house on the hill, cost a couple of mill, Juicy J got bank like Uncle Phil.
— Juicy J
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It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam — which, let me make it very clear, I have not done…
— Tina Fey
Who Wrote These Uncle Quotes
326 authors contributed a total of 416 Uncle Quotes, led by these top contributors: