Nephew famous quotes
05-20-2025
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[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?
-- Agnes Repplier -
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
-- Anais Nin -
It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.
-- Annie Proulx -
If you think I'm fast, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno.
-- Ayrton Senna -
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
-- Beck -
I'm from a big family. I've got 10 nieces and nephews.
-- Cheryl Cole -
What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.
-- Juan Manuel Fangio -
There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.
-- Kim Cattrall -
But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! for then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And never be met with again!
-- Lewis Carroll -
I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the one responsible for the Marquess of Atherton's heir and sole offspring. I am not the one who will be toppled from my pedestal if the world learns I have not only permitted but encouraged my nephew to associate with the most shocking persons. I am not the one who-" "I wish you were the one who had heard of the rule Silence is Golden," he said.
-- Loretta Chase -
[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.
-- P. G. Wodehouse -
My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god.
-- Ruth Buzzi -
Your birthday has come round again so we send this card to say, happy birthday nephew dear lots of love are sent your way.
-- Susan Smith -
I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
-- Tahj Mowry -
There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.
-- Tahj Mowry -
Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.
-- Tim Allen -
I would not trade any of these features for anybody else’s. I wouldn’t trade the small thin-lipped mouth that makes me resemble my nephew. I wouldn’t even trade the acne scar on my right cheek, because that recurring zit spent more time with me in college than any boy ever did.
-- Tina Fey -
I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
-- Wallace Shawn -
How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.
-- Woody Allen -
To me, my nephew is the angel of my world. It is my absolute happiest moment whenever he smiles at me.
-- Li Bingbing -
To me, my nephew is the angel of my world. It is my absolute happiest moment whenever he smiles at me. I have stopped working 24 hours a day like I was before, and I rush back home to see him whenever I can after work. That always makes my day.
-- Li Bingbing -
The business can be frustrating. For me, Omaha is a rounding foundation. I was raised in a very faith-filled household, very hardworking. It made me aware of what privilege is. And it's a place I can go back to, spend time with nieces and nephews, celebrate the things that have nothing to do with the hubbub of Hollywood.
-- Nicholas D'Agosto -
Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
-- Salman Khan -
The colossal mess in Vatican finances that [Pope] Francis inherited has been cleaned up, and cleaned out. Real budgeting and accounting procedures are in place; so are real professionals, not somebody's nephew.
-- George Weigel
