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“The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.”

“At this, Calvin kissed my son on the nose, his lips pressed to the sheet.”

Family Affection Uncles Nephews

Book:The Saturday Night Ghost Club

Source: The Saturday Night Ghost Club

“I hope they produce twenty-seven bouncing babies for Uncle Bobby to spoil rotten. Then I'll hand them back when they need changing and bathing and whatnot.”

Uncles Babies Aunts

Book:The Price of Lemon Cake

Source: The Price of Lemon Cake

“There are always Uncles at Christmas.”

Christmas Uncles

Book:Παιδικά Χριστούγεννα στην Ουαλία

Source: Παιδικά Χριστούγεννα στην Ουαλία

“Some few large men sat in the front parlors (...), Uncles almost certainly, trying their new cigars, holding them out judiciously at arms’ length, returning them to their mouths, coughing, then holding them out again as though waiting for the explosion;”

Christmas Uncles Cigars

Book:A Child's Christmas in Wales

Source: A Child's Christmas in Wales

“Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.”

Book:Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“As a matter of fact, I am an uncle. I have nine nephews and nieces. I'm not sure if they think I'm all that quick with a quip. But I'm quick with a spank.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.”

War Insanity Vietnam Uncles

Author:Bob Dylan

“I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did.”

Years Firsts Running Valleys Uncles Colony Argentina Tracing Width

Author:Matthew Rhys

“There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.”

Ifs Knows Writing Mean Done Used Tomorrow Late Sitting Ass Painter Phrases Muse Uncles Grind Showing Up Raphael

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.”

Wells Girl Mets Intellectual Uncles Brilliance Her Beauty

Author:Pope Francis

“I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.”

Kind Littles Used Dad Dresses My Dad Japan Call Me My Sister Uncles Dressings Embarrassment Dolls Silk Gowns

Author:David Walliams

“I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents.”

Long Parent Week Long Time Fishing Texas Hunting Uncles Grandparent Time Away Hunting And Fishing

Author:RJ Mitte

“One time I semi-wrecked my uncle's truck. He told me to back it up into a ditch, but my foot slipped and I gunned it a little too much. But now I use one foot, and I do not run into stuff - at least I try not to.”

Trying Littles Use Running Stuff Too Much Feet One Time Uncles Truck

Author:RJ Mitte

“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.”

Knows Mom My Mom Grandfather Uncles Aunt My Grandfather Smokers

Author:Jane Smiley

“My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.”

Matter Father Taught Grew Grew Up Strict Uncles Like Family

Author:Mariano Rivera

“If you're familiar with my man Uncle Sam, you understand the only way you can actually feel better about what he's gonna take, come the end of the year, is lifestyle. Only thing you can do is spend some of it.”

Ifs Men Way Feels Years Ends Can Do Lifestyle Familiar Feel Better Uncles Uncle Sam

Author:Curtis Jackson

“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.”

Knows Years Kind School Stars Dark Theater Screens Primaries Atmosphere Uncles Movie Star Lighting Primary School

Author:Andrew Lau

“It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.”

Should Mind Genius Taste Welfare Privileged Uncles Outrage Good Taste

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“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

“You deliver 2,000 babies or better - 3,000 by that time. And that's, you know, at minimum, three people each. And then if you take grandparents or grandparents of siblings and aunts and uncles, you know, you get - a 100,000 votes outta that”

People Ifs Knows Three Baby Vote Minimum Uncles Grandparent Aunt Sibling Aunts And Uncles

Author:Tom Coburn

“I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece.”

Uncles Masterpiece

Author:Vera Farmiga

“If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.”

Ifs Religion Sea Picks Miracle Checks Burning Just One If I Could Uncles Burning Bush

Author:Woody Allen

“I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.”

People Life Sometimes Moments Stories Pain Life Is Perfect Worst Laughter Response Judgement Judged Harsh Uncles Grandparent Aunt Hypocrite Showing Up Hanging On

Author:William J. Clinton

“My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.”

Walks Wonder Wife My Wife Uncles Abbey

Author:Alec Douglas-Home

“Well, I can't (sing or dance). Actually, I sing like a seal and dance like your Uncle Leo at that wedding where he got up and went 'ya, ya, ya'.”

Wells I Can Like You Dance Uncles Seals

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and a half an acre on which a single tree was worth more than a hundred dollars. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain.... a bad, black business from beginning to end.”

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.”

Littles Said Guy Uncles Flamboyant

Author:Andy Garcia

“You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?”

Work Pay Uncles Uncle Sam

Author:Billy Joel

“When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.”

Children Whole Cooking Heritage Uncles Cousin Aunt Whole Family My Cousin Aunts And Uncles

Author:Mario Batali

“I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their kids, the way you love a puppy or chocolate ice cream or home or your favorite book or your sister. Or your uncle. There's those kinds of love and then there's the other kind. The falling kind.”

“We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.”

Energy Nations Natural Development Oil Nuclear Fuel Gas Permit Exploitation Uncles Fossils Fossil Fuel Barrels Natural Gas Petroleum Uncle Sam Geothermal

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.”

Individual Son Brother Bigger Afghanistan Uncles Cousin Something Bigger Than Yourself

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.”

Important Dream Kids Parent Family Members Blessed Luck Neighbor Pursue Rainbow Uncles Aunt Down The Road Family Members

Author:Dolly Parton

“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.”

Writing Mother Father Details Intimate Uncles Cousin Aunt My Cousin Aunts And Uncles

Author:Anne Lamott

“I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.”

“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.”

Past Values Animal Sea Taught Shapes Longing Competition Chaos Load Our Past Uncles Cousin Aunt Frailty Family Values Clans Exuberance

Author:Timothy Shriver

“The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul.”

Soul Fighting Prejudice Uncles Bewilderment

Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.”

Lost Battle Draws Warfare Uncles Machinery Rice Uncle Sam

Author:Malcolm X

“When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket.”

“What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini... in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.”

Source: Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

“Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.”

Author:William Shakespeare

“It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.”

People Ifs Might Mother Four Brother Myth Be Good Uncles Aunt Your Brother

Author:David Hockney

“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.”

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Book:Phineas Redux

Source: Phineas Redux

“Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep... an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home... [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.”

Mean Littles Enough Home Wish Trials Granted Uncles Embarrassing Creeps Spirited Anomalies Mean Spirited Grover

Author:Tucker Carlson

“This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I see her again? What shall we do today? Do you like these shoes? Theory and reflection are delicate old uncles bustled out of the way by the boisterous nephews action and desire. Themes evaporate, only plot remains.”

Way Love Today Action Desire Love You Particular Theory Reflection Universal Remains Shoes Locals Bother Theme Plot Delicate Uncles Nephew Boisterous

Author:Glen Duncan

“My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.”

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Author:L. Neil Smith

“I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals. Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don't fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America. Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.”

“All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.”

“Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.”

Men Looks Turns Universe Wise Embrace Insane Insanity Uncles

Author:Bradley Denton