Aunt Quote by Phyllis McGinley Download Open image “Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.” — Phyllis McGinley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aunt Aunts and uncles Discreet Instinct Littles Shy
An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Aunts are to be a pattern and example to all aunts; to be a delight to boys (and girls) and a comfort to their… — Dave Isay Copy Share Image
Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My aunts were not cruel, you understand. They loved to talk, and at every available opportunity they gave away the neatly wrapped presents of… — Ann Howard Creel Copy Share Image
“On the cue 'five aunts' I had given at the knees a trifle, for the thought of being confronted with such a solid gaggle… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Always wise aunts come in many guises. There are maiden aunts, dowager aunts, and that delightful creature, the eccentric aunt. I fear I fall… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You're aunt's just--what is it--down the hall. You know damn well this place isn't soundproofed." "You'll just have to be quiet." He gave her… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no… — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair,… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school… — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
I'll just do a round around of the house and make sure the rest of the family are fast asleep. We don't want that… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might become if I'm not careful: Crazy Aunt Liz. The divorcee in the muumuu with the dyed orange hair who doesn't eat dairy but smokes menthols, who's always just coming back from her astrology cruise or… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table,… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few… — Sullivan Stapleton Copy Share Image
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to. — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
