Quotes by Uncles Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle. Alvah Bessie beardauntuncles There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there was violence, greed, drugs were rising - just all of this. And my uncle was saying, you've got to come back to faith, hope and love. Now, you get the translation and say faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and love. Alveda King unclestakenpeople Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda. Alveda King uncleskingsfather During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba. Amin Maalouf egyptunclesmoving Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love. Amos Lee unclesmotherfather I hate false advertising, like 'Skittles: taste the rainbow.' No one's ever been like, 'Rainbow, right you guys?' Or what's Reese's? 'There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's.' Oh, really? Tell that to my uncle who used to put them in my underwear. Alright, maybe your uncles didn't love you. Amy Schumer uncleshatelove-you In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies. Andrew Lau unclesstarsschool 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 that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel. Andy Cohen auntunclessexy My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire. Andy Garcia unclesguylittles Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room. Anna Garlin Spencer unclesachievementwriting I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me. Anne Lamott cousinunclesmother If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you. Anne Lamott unclesbelievejesus Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited! Anthony Burgess devilunclesangel You know how everybody has that one weird creepy uncle? Well, Seth Green looks like he got raped by all of them. Anthony Jeselnik unclescreepylooks Sure, my uncle killed himself playing Russian Roulette. But I choose to remember him as a great Russian Roulette player. Anthony Jeselnik rouletteunclesplayer In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue. Anthony Trollope cousinunclesbrother 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 knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position. Arthur Conan Doyle uncleshumoroussuccessful The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter. Arthur Hopcraft unclesfootballsports I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important. Arthur Miller unclesmenfather My mother would say, before I left the house, 'Remember Art, hugs are better than drugs.' And I believed my mother, I believed everything she said - until the first time I got high at a party. I leaned back, and I went, 'God, this is way better than when my Uncle Perry hugs me. What else has my mother been lying to me about? Artie Lange unclesmotherart«1234567891011»
