Top 185 Aunts Quotes & Sayings

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.

There was a group of six women in my household. My mom, aunts and grandma. I watched them in the kitchen.

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

The friends I have from childhood are definitely like family to me - extended sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

Mum and Dad used to do a lot of entertaining. We had quite a nice house, so everybody descended on us at Christmas - aunts and uncles, who weren't even aunts and uncles.

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

My aunts still try to fatten me up.

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

My mother didn't play being disrespectful to women. I was around grandmas and aunts. You learned pretty quick to be respectful!

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.

My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.

I come from a family with many dancers, my aunts learnt dance, so did Kamal Haasan and, as a child I learnt it, too.

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

Whenever the kindly uncles and aunts came over for a cup of tea and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, it was always the same: an 'authoress', and illustrate my own books.

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

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?

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

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.

I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.

My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the 'whites only' and segregated schools.

God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.

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

No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

We are very close as a family. There are uncles and aunts for whom I would stand in front of a truck.

Growing up, my aunts would always put in hair ties and bows and all kinds of stuff, and I always hated it.

I was complimented for looking young and yet was offered roles of aunts, sister-in-law and very soon grandma too!

I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

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

I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts and uncles), living as boldly as they want to be.

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

I had grown up in a world dominated by women - I had aunts and sisters and great-aunts - and I just felt like I lived in a completely female world.

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.

Two of my aunts are Catholic sisters.

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.

But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say 'Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!'

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 was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.

My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.

It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.

I have two aunts and three cousins in Korea as well.

My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

My God, it's laundry and family when I come back home. I've got to see my brother and kids, and my sister-in-law, my aunts, my uncles, cousins; everybody is here.