Aunt Quotes:

At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.

- Adeline Yen Mah

source: Adeline Yen Mah (1997). “Falling leaves return to their roots”, Penguin Books Ltd

topic: Aunt, Feet, Independence

I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Uncles, Aunt, Looks, Throwback, Aunts And Uncles

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Men, Aunt, Triumph

Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Aunt, Grandfather, Special, Dr Johnson, United Family

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Girl, Aunt, Magic, Practical Magic

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

- Alvah Bessie

topic: Uncles, Aunt, Beard

This is so weird. They're your brother and aunt." "No, I understand. They're your family too." Rhys said. "They loved you and raised you. That's what family is, right?

- Amanda Hocking

topic: Brother, Aunt, Said

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

topic: Sexy, Uncles, Aunt, Emerald City, Aunts And Uncles

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

- Aneurin Bevan

topic: Aunt, Middle East, World

My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.

- Angela Bassett

topic: Mom, Thinking, Aunt

I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt,

- Ann B. Davis

source: "Ann B. Davis, Alice on 'Brady Bunch,' dies" by Catherine E. Shoichet, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2014.

topic: Children, Aunt, My Sister, Great Aunt

Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.

- Anne Fortier

topic: Philosophy, Taken, Aunt

Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she wanted. Then I ran out and caught my bus. I didn't say I loved her. I guess I did. But asking someone to say they love you--and she always asked--is like buying yourself a birthday present. It's more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it.

- Avi

topic: Love You, Kissing, Aunt

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt, who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and a few others.

- B. B. King

topic: Mother, Aunt, People, Gospel Music

I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.

- Bailee Madison

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

topic: Aunt, World, Want

[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.

- Barbara Pym

source: Barbara Pym (1982). “Less than angels”, HarperCollins Publishers

topic: Aunt, Laughing, Firsts

Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.

- Barry Nelson

topic: Crazy, Taken, Aunt

There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to you and they would say, "Excuse me," and you'd barely hear them, and you'd turn around and you'd say, "Yeah, how you doing?" and they'd say, "I'm really sorry to bother you, but my aunt is a big fan of yours, and would you mind terribly if you'd just sign this paper," or whatever it is, and you're happy to do that, and the people are pretty nice about it.

- Billy Bob Thornton

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Sorry, Nice, Aunt, Boulevard

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

- Billy Wilder

topic: Aunt, Pay, Punctuation, Punctual, Minnie

Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.

- Brandon Sanderson

topic: Heart, Men, Aunt

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

- Bryan Clay

topic: Cousin, Uncles, Aunt, Aunts And Uncles

[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

- Caitlin Thomas

topic: Aunt, Tears, Journalism, Doormat

Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.

- Calvin Trillin

topic: Aunt, People, Trying

Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like Im sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But its not supposed to be that way.

- Carole Bouquet

topic: Mother, Jobs, Aunt, Not Talking

"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"

- Charles Dickens

topic: Love, Teaching, Aunt, God Forgives, Caged Birds

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

- Cher

topic: Christmas, Aunt, Japan, Transistors

One of my favorite places in San-Francisco is Aunt Charlies drag show. You pay $3 and see shows that literally give you goose bumps and bring you to tears. As a performer, you know they're giving 100% and you can't help but cry.

- Christopher Owens

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Aunt, San Francisco, Giving

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

- Cristin Milioti

topic: School, Simple, Aunt

All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say 'Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!'

- Darren Criss

topic: Aunt, Looks, Look At Me

Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote "Dear Sofia" or "Dear Boomer" or "Dear Lily's Great-Aunt" at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote "Dear Lily," was that just a version of "Dear Myself"? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too

- David Levithan

topic: Aunt, Order, Lilies, Postcards, Great Aunt

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

- David Lloyd George

topic: Aunt, Government, Political, Buccaneers

The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.

- David Miliband

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

topic: Wedding, Aunt, Hands, My Grandfather, Wedding Ring

Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.

- David Nicholls

topic: Sex, Aunt, Cuddling, Cramps, Great Aunt

I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.

- Dichen Lachman

topic: Cousin, Uncles, Aunt

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

- Dick Dale

topic: Aunt, Piano, Used

I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men.

- Dolly Parton

source: Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 21, 2010.

topic: Beautiful, Grandma, Aunt, My Grandma, Beautiful Sister

My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.

- Dolly Parton

topic: Aunt, Looks, Paper, Toilet Paper

The tolerance of the public is diminishing. We're spending time on the wrong people. It's nutty. There has to be a better way. Why are we stripsearching Aunt Molly from Iowa and letting on Richard Reid?

- Donald J. Carty

topic: Aunt, Iowa, People, Nutty

Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

- Donna Tartt

topic: Couple, Book, Aunt

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

- Doris Day

topic: Cousin, Uncles, Aunt, Wonderful Family, Gone To Heaven

My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that.

- Dree Hemingway

topic: Mother, Children, Aunt, Socialites

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

- Eleanor Porter

source: Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin

topic: Aunt, Pollyanna

I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.

- Ellen DeGeneres

topic: Children, Aunt, Discipline

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

- Elliott Carter

topic: Boys, Aunt, Records, Phonograph

I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister.

- Eric Dickerson

topic: Mother, Thinking, Aunt, Viola, Great Aunt

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

- Erica Jong

topic: Mother, Aunt, Grandfather

Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.

- Ernest Gaines

topic: Country, Believe, Aunt

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda

- Eva Ibbotson

topic: Aunt, Other Cultures, Judging

I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

- Felicia Day

topic: Aunt, Acting, Actresses

The black, hungry roses that Redd sent snaking towards the princess were easily squashed, the orbs and and unmanned, airborne blades of effortlessly waved off, and the spears of black energy (Alyss was flattered, her aunt borrowing this idea from her) pinned motionless to the air by Alyss's own white spears with no trouble.

- Frank Beddor

topic: Princess, Aunt, Air, Airborne

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

- Frank Bruno

topic: Brother, Dad, Aunt, Tesco

These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.

- Frank Carlucci

topic: Aunt, Elements, Middle East

I'd sort of dabbled in Black Magic, not practicing it, but I was interested in it. All these horrible things kept happening to me - a lot of my aunts and uncles started dying and I was seeing all these bloody things visiting me during the night.

- Geezer Butler

topic: Uncles, Aunt, Night, Aunts And Uncles, Black Magic

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy. ...

- Gene Stratton-Porter

topic: Aunt, Boys, Likes, Like A Boy

My father taught me about having principles and how to treat people with respect. My aunt also taught me how to keep a perspective on everything that happens to you. So you learn to be humble and not take your success for granted.

- George Clooney

topic: Father, Humble, Aunt, Treating People With Respect

The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.

- George Clooney

topic: Motivational, Dad, Aunt, Rosemary, Best Advice

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

- George Eads

topic: Hero, Grandmother, Aunt

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

- George Seaton

topic: Clever, Writing, Aunt

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

- Giada De Laurentiis

topic: Mother, Aunt, Kitchen

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.

- Gillian Anderson

topic: Aunt, Luxury, Trying

Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.

- Hannah Whitall Smith

topic: Stars, Aunt, Trying

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

- Hans Urs von Balthasar

topic: Aunt, Saint, Sense Of Humor, Killjoy, Spinsters

But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such.)For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the "progressives" nor the "integralists" seem to possess it - the latter even less than the former.

- Hans Urs von Balthasar

topic: Aunt, Catholic, Saint, Killjoy, Spinsters

Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.

- Harper Lee

topic: Aunt, Land, People, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird, Mockingbird

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

- Harry Graham

source: 'Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes' (1899) 'Equanimity'.

topic: Aunt, Sublime, Steps

I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.

- Hayley Atwell

topic: Dad, Aunt, Kansas

Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.

- Heather Brewer

topic: Home, School, Aunt, School Years

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

- Helen Thomas

topic: Crazy, Aunt, Politics

For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.

- Hilaire Belloc

topic: Time, Liars, Aunt

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

- Ice T

topic: Mother, Father, Aunt, Third Grade

I find weddings really boring. They give speeches, your aunt kisses you on the cheek, and you're at a boring table. But it's different when it's your own.

- Isla Fisher

topic: Kissing, Aunt, Giving

Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel — Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Baby, Angel, Aunt, Dudley Dursley, Petunias

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

- Jack Kerouac

topic: Wisdom, Aunt, Men

The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah!

- James Whitcomb Riley

source: James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.315, Indiana University Press

topic: Sweet, Aunt, Jelly, Quince, Cinnamon

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

- Jane Smiley

topic: Mom, Uncles, Aunt, Smokers

Dear Aunt Loretta, Thank you so much for the awesome pants! How did you know I wanted that for Christmas? I love the way the pants look on my legs! All my friends will be so jealous that I have my very own pants. Thank you for making this the best Christmas ever! Sincerely, Greg

- Jeff Kinney

topic: Jealous, Aunt, Way

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.

- Jeff Ross

source: "Comedy, Then and Now: Laughing With the Legends of Stand-Up From the 1800’s to 2010" by Steve North, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2010.

topic: Uncles, Sarcasm, Aunt, Aunts And Uncles

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

- Joe Biden

topic: Aunt, Hopeful, Middle East

To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can use unlesss I write them down, for Aunt Miranda always says, Keep your thoughts to yourself.

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

source: Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.237, e-artnow

topic: Book, Writing, Aunt, Miranda

Was she telling you to stay away from me?" I asked. He paused, then said, "Yeah." He squeezed my hand out of Aunt Lauren's sight. "It's okay. We're good." Chloe and Derek

- Kelley Armstrong

topic: Aunt, Sight, Hands, Stay Away From Me

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 sharp-nosed aunt of yours catching us when we find the diamonds." "What diamonds?" "Think positive for once...Which would you rather, diamonds or the remains of a murdered maidservant? It's all a question of attitude.

- Kerstin Gier

topic: Attitude, Thinking, Aunt

You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel comes along and rakes it all up again." Caroline giggled. She was probably imagining Aunt Glenda as a camel. "This is not a TV series, Maddy," said Lady Arista sharply. "Thank goodness, no, it isn't," said Great-aunt Maddy. "If it were, I'd have lost track of the plot ages ago.

- Kerstin Gier

source: Kerstin Gier (2014). “The Ruby Red Trilogy”, p.225, Macmillan

topic: Aunt, Thinking, Track, Great Aunt

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

- Laura Linney

topic: Sweet, Aunt, Remember, Something Sweet, Handkerchiefs

Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.

- Linda Sunshine

source: Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.26, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Sibling, Stupid, Aunt

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.

- Lindsey Davis

topic: Reading, Aunt, Pigs

I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

- Little Richard

topic: Uncles, Aunt, Long

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

- Lord Mountbatten

topic: Sweet, Crazy, Aunt, Empresses

Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!

- Lori Lansens

source: Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.6, Vintage Canada

topic: Aunt, Voice, One Day, Writer's Voice, Shout Out

For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look!

- Lulu

topic: Aunt, People, Giving

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

topic: Aunt, East, Earth, Bright Side, Splendour

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Freedom, Aunt, Anarchy, Handmaids, Handmaids Tale

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Aunt, Ordinary, May, Handmaids, Handmaids Tale

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Aunt, Choices, Dying, Handmaids Tale

Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N. Aunt Grace leaned closer to the board, squinting. "Mercy Lynne, you're cheatin' again! What kinda word is that? Use it in a sentence." "I'm itchin' ta have some a that white cake." "That's not how you spell it." At least one of them could spell. Aunt Grace pulled one of the tiles off the board. "There's no T in itchin'." Or not.

- Margaret Stohl

topic: Aunt, Cake, White, Squinting, Tiles

But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

- Mark Twain

topic: Aunt, Light, Territory, Huckleberry

Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.

- Meg Cabot

topic: Mean, Aunt, Guessing

I honestly didn't even know who the coach was when I was coming to New York. I just wanted to win a championship; I didn't even know who was coaching. I didn't care. It could have been Aunt Jemima. They could have had the syrup coaching. I was coming here regardless. I just wanted to win a championship here.

- Metta World Peace

topic: New York, Aunt, Winning, Syrup, Could Have Been

I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.

- Michael Steger

topic: Aunt, Practice, Dental, Bios

I cut the ribbon in Paris, and everyone in Paris speaks French — maybe you knew that. But I'm from Tennessee, and Tennessee girls don't speak French. So suddenly I'm stuck onstage with Minnie and Mickey and everyone is yelling at me in French — I guess they're telling me to get off the stage, but I didn't know what they were saying at the time, so I start dancing with Minnie and Mickey like on the show and finally my aunt comes and gets me off.

- Miley Cyrus

topic: Girl, Cutting, Aunt, Minnie, Speaks French

My aunt Marge has been so ill for so long that we've started to call her I can't believe she's not better

- Milton Jones

topic: Funny, Believe, Aunt

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

- Moby

topic: Mother, Aunt, Trying

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 close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

- Mohsin Hamid

topic: Cousin, Uncles, Aunt, Lahore, Close Family

My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.

- Natasha Trethewey

source: "PBS Newshour’s Poetry Series: Where Poetry Lives" by Jonterri Gadson, therumpus.net. September 13, 2013.

topic: Memories, Loss, Aunt, Memory Loss, Losing Her

When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.

- Nina Hagen

topic: Growing Up, Aunt, East

You mean he thinks I'm going to get MORE offers?" Kim said, appalled. "He doesn't seem to be the only one that thinks so." Mairelon said. "Aunt Agatha mentioned it to me yesterday afternoon. Is there anyone, or would you rather I turn the lot of them away?" Kim shook her head. "There isn't anyone." Except you.

- Patricia C. Wrede

topic: Mean, Thinking, Aunt

As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."

- Patti LaBelle

topic: Girl, Aunt, Needs, Helpfulness, General Manager

It's a sweet thing, faith. With it, you can handle any circumstance, any crisis, because you know God always has your back. And when God is for you, who can be against you? Nobody. As my Aunt Hattie says, "One and God are a majority."

- Patti LaBelle

topic: Faith, Sweet, Aunt, Sweet Things

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry ...

- Phyllis McGinley

topic: Aunt, Shy, Littles, Aunts And Uncles

My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.

- Princess Margaret

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

topic: Queens, Children, Aunt

They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

- Queen Elizabeth II

topic: Aunt, Royal

His name's Nash." Aunt Val took a butter knife from the silverware drawer. "What year is he?" I groaned inwardly. "Senior." ...here we go ... Her smile was a little too enthusiastic. "Well that's wonderful!" Of course, what she really meant was "Rise from the shadows, social leper, and walk in the bright light of acceptance!

- Rachel Vincent

topic: Senior, Acceptance, Aunt, Kaylee

A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have known as many men as there are beads on her aunt's rosary. No happy medium! Either a nun or a monster! God's bosom or sensual passions! It would, perhaps, be better to put her in a convent, since we put hysterical women in the Saltpetriere! She does not know vice, she invents it!" That was ten years ago before the day our story begins and... Raoule was not a nun.

- Rachilde

topic: Passion, Aunt, Men, Years Ago

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

- Randall Jarrell

topic: Death, Aunt, Pet

My aunts still try to fatten me up.

- Randy Wayne White

topic: Aunt, Trying, Stills

Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

- Ray Davies

topic: Art, Aunt, Media

Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.

- Recep Tayyip Erdogan

topic: Aunt, World, West, Muslim World

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

- Richard Land

topic: Cat, Grandmother, Aunt, East Texas

She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank nor anyone else had ever had to teach her: that if you wanted something to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

- Richard Yates

topic: Aunt, Knowing, Parent

But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics, you name it, is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what man is, not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be. The Universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: War, Future, Aunt, Wild Animal, Will To Survive

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

- Robert Breault

topic: Aunt, Garden, Thinking

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.

- Robert Breault

topic: Baby, Food, Aunt, Meatloaf, Hunk

My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

- Robert Ripley

topic: Friday, Morning, Aunt, Sunny Afternoon, Friday Afternoon

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

- Robin Tunney

topic: Aunt, Grandfather, Chicago

Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

- Rufus Wainwright

topic: Aunt, My Boyfriend, Care

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, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.

- Sara Sheridan

topic: Kids, Aunt, Opportunity

An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.

- Sara Sheridan

topic: Children, Aunt, Safe Haven

It was an emotional roller coaster - going from Christmas, then your aunt dies, and then all the stats come out and you might get all these records. I've been asked, 'How do you feel' Tired. I'm really blessed we do have this week off where I can kind of grab a hold back to reality.

- Shaun Alexander

topic: Blessed, Tired, Aunt, Back To Reality

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

- Sister Parish

topic: Aunt, Sentimental, Members, Parish

Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics. Personally, I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie, and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.

- Stephen Colbert

topic: Football, Country, Aunt, Watching Football, Funny Thanksgiving Day

My aunt put my cousins into a childrens modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.

- Sullivan Stapleton

topic: Cousin, Aunt, Agency, Modelling, Photo Of Me

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

- Sylvia Townsend Warner

topic: Aunt, Wish, Anarchist, Alarmists

On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Aunt, Virginia, Comforting, Hot Days

And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.

- Tiffanie DeBartolo

topic: Uncles, Aunt, Balls

I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.

- Timothy Shriver

topic: Cousin, Uncles, Aunt, Clans, Exuberance

They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth.

- Tina Yothers

topic: Halloween, Character, Aunt, Halloween Tumblr

I felt like I was an outsider. I think what happened to me made me develop this street sense of watching people and working out what made them tick, wondering whether I could trust them or not. I went to a lot of schools along the coast in California, made few friends and stayed with aunts, uncles and grandparents while my folks tried to make ends meet. It was tough. We had no money.

- Tobey Maguire

source: "Tobey's Lonely Childhood Will Help Him In Spider-Man Role" by wenn.com, January 31, 2001.

topic: Uncles, School, Aunt

No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy.

- Tobsha Learner

topic: Strong, Aunt, Feminist, Spinsters, Childlessness

It's not hard to draw from within yourself to play someone protective of her daughter. I have animals and I'm a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and friend, and I can be fiercely protective.

- Tricia Helfer

topic: Mother, Daughter, Aunt, Sister Wives

Ben: "Gorog's no assassin! She's my best friend." Mara: "She's an insect, Ben." Ben: "So? Your best friend's a lizard." Mara: "Don't be ridiculous. Aunt Leia is my best friend." Ben: "Doesn't count. She's family. Saba is a lizard." Mara: "Okay, maybe my best friend's a lizard.

- Troy Denning

topic: Aunt, My Best Friend, Assassins, Leia

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

- Vera Farmiga

topic: Mother, Aunt, Feminist

I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so I was sort of partially Amish. When I go back there now I still get into that culture. I can drive a horse and buggy because they don't use cars. And, of course, there's no electricity. I respect them a lot. The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to like Little House on the Prairie days or something.

- Verne Troyer

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

topic: Horse, Uncles, Aunt, Little House On The Prairie, Amish

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?

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Uncles, Son, Aunt, Grandson, Great Aunt

My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of my aunt. The sun streams over the geraniums. What has this to do with what I feel, with what I am.

- William H. Gass

topic: Mother, Aunt, Feet

When I got the episode where Spider-Man meets Aunt May (voiced by Misty Lee), it was another one of those things where I was like, "I can't believe I have a scene with Aunt May. That's just amazing to me." And they drew her a lot younger and hotter then the Aunt May that I remember.

- Clark Gregg

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Believe, Aunt, Men, Hotter

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

- Daryl Gregory

source: Daryl Gregory (2015). “Harrison Squared”, p.111, Macmillan

topic: Aunt, Parent, Substitutes, Conspirators

My aunt was a fashion model and I happened to go to her agency with her, one day, when I was five. A talent agent said, "You should come talk to us." I did a few things. I did an indie movie and commercials, and stuff.

- Ellar Coltrane

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Fashion, Aunt, Agency, Indie Movie, Fashion Model

There are two things. There was the moral responsibility, and that, first, is creating an atmosphere where the security forces can kill with impunity, where they can turn up at a place, shoot seven people - really at point-blank fashions - and then get away with it and be, in fact, promoted. And then there is the actual responsibility, the governmental responsibility. My aunt's government forbade us, initially, from filing a police report - which is every Pakistani citizen's right under the law.

- Fatima Bhutto

source: Source: www.sbs.com.au

topic: Fashion, Responsibility, Aunt, Impunity, Filing

The first song I wrote, in fifth grade, was totally ripped from Jeffrey Lewis. My aunt's boyfriend gave me bass lessons, and I played drums for a year in sixth grade. Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.

- Frankie Cosmos

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Song, Aunt, Guitar, Sixth Grade, Fifth Grade

If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.

- Gail Zappa

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Uncles, Memories, Aunt, Our Past, Old Photographs

I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. Its where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artworks sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

- Jessica McNamee

topic: Aunt, Australia, People, Tall, Tall Trees

...I realized how naive I was. My aunt Tina was right: this stuff does exist, and it does hurt people, and although there are lots of people at Liberty who condemn violence against gays-including Dr. Falwell himself-the number of students who want to give them the Goliath treatment isn't zero. In fact, the number who live in my room isn't zero.

- Kevin Roose

topic: Hurt, Aunt, People

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Aunt, Looks, Beast, Wrinkle In Time

I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.

- Paul O'Grady

topic: Children, Aunt, Tunes, Popeye, Spinach

I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.

- Robert Barry

topic: Aunt, Parent, My Family, Family History

My Aunt Marion used to always tell me 'a touch of sun adds an air of intrigue...'

- Tim Quinn

topic: Aunt, Air, Add

I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!

- Unknown

topic: Cousin, Queens, Aunt, Great Britain

I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had one. Whenever I'd go to her place, I was in the basement working on her computer, writing stories.

- Xavier Dolan

topic: Home, Writing, Aunt

Twenty years after the Andy Griffith Show when Andy did Matlock, he hired me for four episodes. I told him I wanted to develop an Aunt Bea type role for Matlock, but he was against it. I did appear on other popular TV shows, like Family Affair, My Three Sons, Barnaby Jones and Little House on the Prairie.

- Betty Lynn

topic: Son, Aunt, Years, Andy Griffith Show, Little House On The Prairie

I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between my grandmothers, aunts, older female cousins, and of course my mother, I was pretty much predominantly raised by women, as they make up most of my family anyway.

- Aeriel Miranda

topic: Mother, Cousin, Aunt, Immediate Family

Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious.

- Carlos Mencia

topic: Aunt, Race, Car, Nascar, Black Guys

"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"

- Charles Williams

topic: Aunt, Opposites, Numbers

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

- Ross Perot

source: Ross Perot (1992). “United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country”

topic: Business, Crazy, Aunt

I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading, I would say, "To each his own."

- Sefi Atta

topic: Reading, Aunt, Remember

Even now, hearing the debates about Medicaid, the suggestion that somehow we could save money by cutting Medicaid strikes a chord in me personally. It seems there are some other ways we can save money rather than making it harder for people like my aunt to get health care.

- Josh Earnest

topic: Cutting, Aunt, People, Medicaid

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

- Pat Conroy

topic: Uncles, Aunt, House

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.160

topic: Inspirational, Mean, Aunt

"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1850). “Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observations of David Copperfield the Younger”, p.155

topic: Funny, Humorous, Aunt

Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

- Jasper Fforde

source: "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

topic: Fashion, Aunt, Ideas, Abomination, Overpopulation

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Aunt, Doors, Musician

When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his aunt’s house and slip through into Fillory...it’s like he’s opening the covers of a book, but a book that did what books always promised to do and never ac tually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into something better.

- Lev Grossman

topic: Book, Dark, Aunt

When I was driving home, I just thought about the word 'special'. And I thought the last person who said that about me was my Aunt Helen. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do.

- Stephen Chbosky

source: Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

topic: Grateful, Home, Aunt, Driving Home, Helen

Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can't stop thinking what I know. And I know that my aunt Helen would still be alive today if she just bought me one present like everybody else. She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn't snow.

- Stephen Chbosky

source: Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mom, Dad, Aunt

When we were all getting ready to leave, I walked up to my grandfather and gave him a hug and kiss on the cheek. He wiped my lip print off with his palm and gave me a look. He doesn't like the boys in the family to touch him. But I'm very glad that I did it anyway in case he dies. I never got to do that with my Aunt Helen.

- Stephen Chbosky

source: Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

topic: Kissing, Aunt, Boys, Helen, Ready To Leave

I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.

- Paul McCartney

topic: Aunt, Typewriters, House, Mimi

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

source: Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.86, A&C Black

topic: Aunt, Islands, Secret

I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?'

- Stevie Nicks

topic: Niece, Aunt, Hair, My Niece

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

- Christina Stead

source: Christina Stead (1992). “A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973”, Angus & Robertson Publishers

topic: Aunt

Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.

- Jerome K. Jerome

source: Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.67, Jerome K. Jerome

topic: Funny, Humorous, Aunt

The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.598, e-artnow

topic: Aunt, Naps, Romance, Bookworms

When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.

- Chuck Berry

source: Source: archives.nbclearn.com

topic: Kids, Aunt, Parent

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Aunt, Laughing, Understanding

…I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

source: Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.569, e-artnow

topic: Sorry, Character, Aunt, L'm Montgomery

The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?" (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)

- Peter S. Beagle

topic: Uncles, Angel, Aunt

At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

- Jill Scott

topic: Jobs, Aunt, House, My Own Happiness

Saw him where?" "While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts." This seemed to satisfy Ronan was well, because he asked, "What's the other half of her?" "God, Ronan," Adam said. "Enough.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Aunt, Sitting, Half

Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And it gelled. He made all the sense in the world to me. I got addicted to his albums, and then Belafonte and Odetta - they were the people who seemed to fuse things that were important to me into music. I think Pete the most because he did what he did to the point where he took those enormous risks and then paid for them.

- Joan Baez

source: "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Aunt, People, Rhythm And Blues

I was really lucky that I had an aunt who was very inspiring to me. She was different than anybody in my family on either side.

- Geena Davis

source: Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

topic: Aunt, Different, Lucky, Very Inspiring

I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.

- Geena Davis

source: Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

topic: Aunt, Impact, Understanding

[My aunt] took me to my first play, too, which was dinner theater. I don't know if they have that in England, but you eat a dinner while you watch a play. And she ordered a glass of wine. I was like, "Oh my God. This is, like, the most sophisticated thing I have ever done."

- Geena Davis

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Wine, Aunt, Glasses

I had this aunt who had a career and traveled. She'd say things like, "When you go to college, I think we should go scuba diving in the summer. The scuba diving in Portugal is fabulous." And I'd be like, "Portugal! Holy cats!".

- Geena Davis

source: Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

topic: Summer, Cat, Aunt, Scuba, Portugal

Go to bed, Cammie,” my aunt ordered, sounding exactly like my mother. “No,” I said, sounding exactly like my aunt.

- Ally Carter

source: Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.34, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Mother, Aunt, Bed

Ambassador Winters, allow me to introduce my aunt Abby and her....boyfriend.' Townsed tensed. Abby glared. And Rebecca Baxter looked like she was going to choke on her chewing gum.

- Ally Carter

source: Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.125, Hachette UK

topic: Winter, Aunt, Gum, Abby, Chewing Gum

Don’t mind me,” I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.” “No, you diddn’t,” Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasn’t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little. Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.

- Ally Carter

topic: Aunt, Hair, July

You have to get autistic kids out and expose them to things, but do this without any surprises, so they know what to expect. You have to find skilled mentors to teach them things. For me, it was an aunt, and it was my science teacher. You need to find the things they're interested in and good at and expand on this.

- Temple Grandin

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Teacher, Kids, Aunt, Science Teacher

We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats.

- Temple Grandin

source: "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

topic: Cat, Kids, Aunt

The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Aunt, Two, Suffering, Disinterest, Great Aunt

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

- George Clooney

topic: Aunt, Use, Lessons, Rosie

Apache have the strongest nation in the world behind them. So we're going to inflict pain where our European aunts and uncles had to endure it. And so the fact that you could actually get Nazis scared of a band of Jews, that's - again, that's a gigantic psychological thing.

- Quentin Tarantino

topic: Uncles, Pain, Aunt, Aunts And Uncles

My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren’t glitter, well, that only left one other option.

- Rachel Vincent

source: Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.30, Harlequin

topic: Cousin, Aunt, Two, Grunge, Irony Of Life

But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves.

- Rachel Vincent

source: Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.100, Harlequin

topic: Uncles, Aunt, Planning, My Own Life, Aunts And Uncles