339 Quotes About Uncles

  • Author Pat Conroy
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    I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

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  • Author Robert Cormier
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    I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

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  • Author Sid Caesar
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    When I did comedy I made fun of myself.If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. And people looked at me and said, 'Gee, that's like Uncle David', or 'That's like a friend of mine'. And they related through that. I didn't make fun of them. I made fun of me.

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  • Author Tucker Carlson
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    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.

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  • Author William J. Clinton
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    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 by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements can 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 the only response to pain.

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  • Author E. E. Cummings
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    i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)

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  • Author Arthur Conan Doyle
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    My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.

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