Best Auntie Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“More and more people each year are going abroad for Christmas ... Fed up with the fact that commercial Christmas starts in October. Fed up with carols. Dreading the arrival of Christmas cards from people they have forgotten to send a card to. Unable to bear yet another family get-together with Auntie Mary puking up in the corner after sampling too much of the punch. You see in the airports the triumphant glitter in the eyes of people who are leaving it all behind, including the hundredth rerun of Miracle on 34th Street.”

“I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.”

Interest Fashion Auntie

Author:Cara Delevingne

“A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'”

Want Years Lasts Newspapers Tyrants Last Year Saddam Hussein Millionaire Headlines Auntie

Author:Steve Williams

“[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?”

Giving Said Son Racism Give Me Train My Sister Tickets Conductor Patronizing Auntie

Author:Mary McLeod Bethune

“[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.”

Mind Stills Known Wonderful Mixtures Champagne Skirts Suggesting Victorian Gutters Disarray Auntie

Author:Morley Safer

“Tenacious D loves Auntie Em's. Her delicious nutrients are always energizing and indie-fresh. Where does she find those unbelievable recipes? Somewhere over the rainbow?”

Doe Ems Rainbow Delicious Unbelievable Recipes Tenacious Nutrients Energizing Auntie Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Author:Jack Black

“I embrace the criticism, because ultimately (it means) the masses have seen it [my movie]. I embrace it for my father's story, for my mother's story, for my auntie, for my grandmother, who all got their teeth knocked out so I could be [where I am].”

Mean Stories Mother Father Mass Criticism Embrace Teeth Grandmother My Grandmother Auntie

Author:Lee Daniels

“I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave.”

Graves Grandmother Call Me Auntie

Author:Joan Crawford

“My fan base is extremely random. It's the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke's Baptist Church, to the 20-year-old Black girl who probably would go to a Rihanna concert, but she's coming to my show.”

Years Shows Kids Girl Next Black Church White Fans Sitting Concerts Baptists Luke Black Girl Auntie

Author:Robert Glasper

“When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Annes in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.”

Mind Building Husband International Expected My Husband Pretzels Auntie

Author:Anne F. Beiler

“Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.”

Should Happened Modern Should Have Miracle Modern Day Auntie

Author:Anne F. Beiler

“I was called "T-Bow" but the people got it mixed up with "T-Bone." My name is Aaron Walker but "T-Bone" is catchy, people remember it. My auntie gave it to me when I was a kid. Mother's mother was a Cherokee Indian full blooded. There were sixteen girls and two boys in my mother's family, all dead but two.”

People Two Kids Remember Mother Girl Names Boys Bones Indian Bows Sixteen Walkers Catchy Cherokee Auntie Cherokee Indian

Author:T-Bone Walker

“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.”

“When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'”

Knows Giving Ideas Numbers Members My Family Okay Who You Are Prison Phones Hey No Idea Call Me Cousin Family Members Reunion Phone Numbers Family Reunion Auntie

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.”

People Thinking Should Song Fall Stage Bigger Mad Wander Hello Persona Wandering Around Saying Hello Auntie

Author:Florence Welch

“Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far too low-cut." Ginny glanced round, grinning, winked at Harry, then quickly faced the front again.”

Said Whole Cutting Fronts Lows Dresses Rounds Grinning Tiaras Auntie Ginny Weasley

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette habit and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my mother speak her mind. Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was like my Auntie An-mei. Too much water and you flowed in too many different directions. like myself.”

People Feels Should Mind Littles Persons Made Ideas Different Mother Father Speak Water Fire Five Too Much Habit Elements Woods Guilty Temper Cigarette Bent Different Directions Bad Temper Auntie

Author:Amy Tan

“I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more. But listening to Auntie Lin tonight reminds me once agian: My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more. No doubt she told Auntie Lin I was going back to school to get a doctorate.”

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Author:Amy Tan

“You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess, and lonely, and His or Her child. God loved you no matter how crazy you felt on the inside, no matter what a fake you were; always, even in your current condition, even before coffee. God loves you crazily, like I love you...like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need.”

Source: Imperfect Birds: A Novel

“We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.”

Three Party Events Rain Garden Edges Sunday Atoms Galaxy Predicting Nucleus Arcadia Auntie

Author:Tom Stoppard

“I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent, and instantly addicting. "This is from Grand Auntie," my mother explains. "She told me 'If I buy the cheap tea, then I am saying that my whole life has not been worth something better.' A few years ago she bought it for herself. One hundred dollars a pound." "You're kidding." I take another sip. It tastes even better.”

Ifs Years Mean Whole Mother Taste Hundred Years Ago Dollars Whole Life Tea Pounds Smooth Something Better Auntie

Book:The Kitchen God's Wife

Source: The Kitchen God's Wife

“Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame?”

Stuff Gay Auntie

Author:Bruce Bawer

“I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.”

Children Used Stuff Regret Genius Auntie You'll Regret It

Author:John Lennon

“You know that one auntie, you don't wanna be rude, ...But every holiday, nobody eatin' her food.”

Knows Hip Hop Rap Holiday Rude Auntie

Author:Kanye West

“I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress.”

Firsts Sports Interest Fashion Football First Time Dresses Soccer Shorts Aisle Sports In General Bridesmaids Auntie

Author:Cara Delevingne

“They put up this bloke's picture on Crimewatch UK with a phone number and said 'Have you seen this man?' Well my auntie rang them up and said 'No'.”

Men Wells Said Numbers Phones Blokes Phone Numbers Auntie

Author:Jasper Carrott

“Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.”

Source: The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

“On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First Family; descendent of Terrence Jaxon, signatory of the One Law; great-great-nephew of the one known as Auntie, Last of the First; Peter of Souls, the Man of Days and the One Who Stood-took his position on the catwalk above Main Gate, waiting to kill his brother.”

Source: The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

“I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.”

Want Should Said War Wanted Jobs University Reporters Exposing Oxford Auntie

Author:Nina Bawden