Uncle Quotes

416 quotes by 326 authors

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
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
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
My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama. — Fred Allen
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
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
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
My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. — Chuck Nevitt
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
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
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
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
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
Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle! — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
Got a house on the hill, cost a couple of mill, Juicy J got bank like Uncle Phil. — Juicy J
It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam â€” which, let me make it very clear, I have not done… — Tina Fey

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