Uncles Quotes

392 quotes by 312 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
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was… — Ben Barnes
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
My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables. — John Boehner
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
Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. — Bryan Clay
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
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is… — Fanny Fern
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
In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of… — Padma Lakshmi
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
Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle! — William Shakespeare

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