Best Uncles Wisdom
392 Uncles quotes by 309 unique authors
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I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece.
— Vera Farmiga
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If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a…
— Woody Allen
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I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that…
— William J. Clinton
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My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.
— Alec Douglas-Home
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Well, I can't (sing or dance). Actually, I sing like a seal and dance like your Uncle Leo at that wedding where he got up…
— Richard Dreyfuss
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I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and…
— John Muir
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
— Billy Joel
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When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.
— Mario Batali
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I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their…
— Carol Rifka Brunt
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We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is…
— Gerald R. Ford
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When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual…
— Pope Francis
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My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.
— Andy Garcia
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My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't…
— Gilbert Gottfried
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My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
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My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'
— Lena Dunham
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Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
— Robert Duvall
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They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and…
— Black Elk
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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because…
— Brian Eno
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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
— R. Lee Ermey
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's…
— Nathan Fillion
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I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is…
— Larry Hagman
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I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many…
— Mohsin Hamid
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If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be…
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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