Uncle Quotes

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild.

My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go there, Uncle Sam. He said if you don't go, you're going to jail. That is how Uncle Sam asks you.

By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.

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.

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.

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 a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

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.

It was my mom and I against the world.

We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

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

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

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

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 more. It’s a generous medium, photography.

Of course I want dubs and a candy painted 'lac Watch the videos and get the girls in the back But if that's what I believe in, and the reason that I rap Uncle Sam is my pimp when he puts me on the track

As a matter of fact, I am an uncle. I have nine nephews and nieces. I'm not sure if they think I'm all that quick with a quip. But I'm quick with a spank.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?

It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns

I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!

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.

Uncle Tom - Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. The character was seen by many readers as ground-breaking humanistic

Uncle Remus - Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of black American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris and

Uncle Sam - Uncle Sam (initials U.S.) is a common national personification of the U.S. federal government or the country in general that, according to legend, came

Uncle Jesse - Uncle Jesse may refer to any of several real or fictional people, including: Jesse Katsopolis, from the television series Full House Jesse Duke, a character

U.N.C.L.E. - U.N.C.L.E. is an acronym for the fictional United Network Command for Law and Enforcement, a secret international intelligence agency featured in the 1960s

Uncle Phil - Uncle Phil may refer to two individuals, one fictional and one real: Phil Knight, founder of Nike, Inc., who is affectionately called "Uncle Phil" by students

Uncle Joe - Uncle Joe may refer to: Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), Soviet leader, called "Uncle Joe" by Western media Joe Biden (born 1942), the 47th U.S. Vice President

Raju Uncle - Raju Uncle is a 2005 Bengali film directed by Haranath Chakraborty and produced by Pijush Saha The film features actors Prosenjit Chatterjee and Sayantani

Uncle Kracker - Matthew Shafer (born June 6, 1974), also known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer-songwriter and musician known for his country and

Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old.

I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.

I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.

Got a house on the hill, cost a couple of mill, Juicy J got bank like Uncle Phil.

My dear children!" Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack.

"Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye. "Nellie!" Amy said. "Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys.

The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military.

My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.

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

Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite.

Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?