Quotes for All
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 … Read more
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
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic – just one of those unfortunate things. G. Gordon Liddy
The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes – but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life. Ezra Taft Benson
I wasn’t actually going to see the original film [Lord of the Ring], because I didn’t think it was possible that a film could represent the books appropriately. So I was protesting, and I wasn’t going to see them. And then my family all took a jaunt together, the entire family, to see the movies, … Read more
However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of a single book, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Even today, any black who dares to say that perhaps we are not as badly off as our brethren in the … Read more
I definitely appreciated ’60s music. My uncle and I used to take long road trips to visit my grandmother when I was going to NYU. We’d listen to Petula Clark and other 60’s music and sing at the top of our lungs the whole time. Erica Schroeder
And I will not be beaten by that jackass. Jackass? said Foaly, wounded. My favorite uncle is a jackass. Eoin Colfer
I met Jack Nicholson when I was about 10 at a party of my uncles, and it wasnt so much that I knew his films because I was small, but he wore sunglasses inside at night and I thought that must mean he was very important and was suitably star struck by his charismatic presence. … Read more
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm. Emeril Lagasse