Best Great Aunt Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Just Out Of Reach

“My nephew is a manipulative, scheming, unscrupulous son of a bitch. And those are his good qualities.”

Humor Rose Gabriel Nephew Great Aunt Good And Bad Qualities

Book:Omens

Source: Omens

“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?”

Done Son Judging Call Me Uncles Aunt Grandson Spoilt Great Aunt

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“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.”

Suffering Courses Strong Social Independence Threat University Feminist Patriarchy Persecution Aunt Predictable Condemnation Marxist Single Women Spinsters Childlessness Great Aunt

Author:Tobsha Learner

“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.”

Two Suffering Hearing Organs Aunt Atrophy Disinterest Great Aunt

Author:Marcel Proust

“If the Word truly became flesh, then God had not only a mother, but also a grandmother, cousins, great-aunts, and weird uncles. If the Word truly dwelt among us, then he was part of a family that, like most, was fairly dysfunctional, a mix of the good and bad, the saintly and the sinful, the glorious and the not so glorious. And this is such good news for us.”

Ifs Mother News Flesh Glorious Grandmother Uncles Good News Cousin Aunt Good And Bad Great Aunt

Author:Robert Barron

“When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.”

People Lasts Heard Doctors Cancer Climbing Seconds Aunt Elbows Everest Mount Everest Climbing Mount Everest Great Aunt

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“From age 23 to 44 - I'm 45 now - I was always in need of money, and I was especially in need of it from 23 to about 34, and my great aunt would always give me money, a hundred bucks, every two months or so, and a lot of times that hundred bucks made a huge difference - I could eat or pay a small bill. It kept me going. She gave me money. It was very loving.”

Needs Giving Made Two Age Differences Pay Huge Months Hundred Give Me Bills Aunt Bucks Two Months Great Aunt

Author:Jonathan Ames

“I got into cooking just by watching my mom and my aunts and my great-aunts and actually one of my cousins who has her own catering business in Atlanta, Georgia. So everybody around me really cooked and it was just all these different styles and backgrounds and cuisines of cooking that I found so interesting.”

Different Found Interesting Style Mom Cooking My Mom Backgrounds Cousin Aunt Georgia Cuisine Atlanta My Cousin Different Styles Catering Great Aunt Atlanta Georgia

Author:Kelly Rowland

“My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.”

Said Reading Aunt Dickens Great Aunt

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.”

Knows Great Aunt

Book:Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

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

Sex Bears Aunt Teddy Teddy Bear Cramps Cuddling Great Aunt

Book:One Day

Source: One Day

“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”

Ifs Knows Needs Feels Order Courses Easier Dear Stranger Versions Aunt Lilies Boomers Postcards Great Aunt

Author:David Levithan

“This is getting ugly.” – Abigail “Like my great-aunt’s underpants.” – Sundown”

Ugly Aunt Abigail Underpants Great Aunt

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Long Has Beens Said Age Lost Tvs Goodness Series Forgotten Track Grass Plot Over It Long Ago Aunt Clumsy Camels Tv Series Rakes Great Aunt

Book:The Ruby Red Trilogy

Source: The Ruby Red Trilogy

“Your Great-Aunt Muriel doesn't agree, I just met her upstairs while she was giving Fleur the tiara. "She said 'Oh dear, is this the muggle born?' and then, 'Bad posture, skinny ankles.'" Don't take it personally, she's rude to everyone," said Ron. "Talking about Muriel?" inquired George, reemerging from the marquee with Fred. "Yeah, she's just told me my ears are lopsided. Old bat.”

Giving Said Born Talking Mets Ears Agree Yeah Dear Bats Rude Aunt Skinny Posture Ankles Upstairs Muggles Tiaras Marquee Great Aunt

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let them meet or play with them. You just showed them pictures of them, and told them to memorize their names. Each day you'd have them recite the names, over and over again. You'd say, "OK, this is a picture of your great-aunt Beatrice. Her husband was your great-uncle Earnie. They had three children, your uncles Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo. Harpo married your aunt Leonie ... yadda, yadda, yadda."”

Children Play Wanted Three Names Education Imagine Husband Married Our Children Mathematics Your Children Each Day Imagine That Uncles Cousin Aunt Aunts And Uncles Great Aunt

Author:Brian X. Foley

“With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.”

“I definitely don't want to have kids ... I don't think I'd be a great mother. I'm a great aunt or friend of a mother ... I don't want to spend that kind of time. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have time to raise a child.”

Thinking Want Kind Children Kids Mother Raises Raised Aunt Nannies Great Mother Childlessness Great Aunt

Author:Chelsea Handler

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

Wells Children My Sister Aunt Great Aunt

Author:Ann B. Davis

“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.”

I Can Remember Sweet Grew Grew Up My Family South Aunt Handkerchiefs Great Aunt Something Sweet

Author:Laura Linney

“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.”

Thinking Mother Raised Our Family Abortion My Sister Adopted Aunt Mama Viola Great Aunt

Author:Eric Dickerson