Aunt Quotes
I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.
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.
We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast
But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.
Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.
If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.
On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.
They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth.
I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.
These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.
I was really lucky that I had an aunt who was very inspiring to me. She was different than anybody in my family on either side.
I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.
For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.
Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables
Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
I had a very crazy aunt and uncle who we traded my brother Webster to for a Siamese cat. It was heaven to live with my aunt and uncle because you got spoiled to death.
Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.
I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.
I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading, I would say, "To each his own."
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.
When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie
The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?
I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?'
It's not hard to draw from within yourself to play someone protective of her daughter. I have animals and I'm a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and friend, and I can be fiercely protective.
Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.
Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.
An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.
Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.
