Uncles Quotes

• My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

  Margaret Smith

  Funny, Death, Witty

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• The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Unfortunate Things, Peculiar, Attics

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• I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.

  Catherine Bell

  Hard Work, Thinking, Life Is Hard

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

  Sarah Silverman

  Fun, Parent, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Family, Humor

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.35, Zondervan

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• I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

  George Lopez

  Couple, Fighting, Aunt

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• Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

  Peter Kay

  Family, Noses, Stealing

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• I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Dad, Agriculture, Bigs

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• I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

  David Amram

  Symphony, Lasts, Jazz

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• She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.

  Louise Fletcher

  Kids, Night, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

  Humphrey Lyttelton

  Mother, Should Have, Lessons

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• Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.

  Alvah Bessie

  Aunt, Beard, Ifs

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• I mean, I'm an uncle of seven or eight, and I don't mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!

  Chris O'Dowd

  Mean, Kids, Eight

  "Our Hilarious Interview with Friends With Kids Star Chris O'Dowd: "Women Just Want To Spoon Me."". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. March 8, 2012.

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• My uncle was a music producer and even he'd tell me to get a proper job. I tried to get him to give me five grand to make an album - it didn't happen.

  Gold Panda

  Jobs, Giving, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Father, Black, Trying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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 not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Perfect, Mustache

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• My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

  Lil Romeo

  Dad, House, Used

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• The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

  Max von Sydow

  Grandfather, Scripts, Offers

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• My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

  Ronnie Wood

  Dad, Two, Mum

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• My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Mother, Father, Years

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• My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Cousin, Real

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

  Robert Cormier

  Believe, Book, Aunt

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• But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Easter, Cousin, Horse

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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• Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Cousin, Long

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• Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

  Mel Torme

  Movie, Dad, Fans

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