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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
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.
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 father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
I don't travel with them, but they can't be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes... I used to play with my family - dad, my grandpa, my uncles.
When I was a boy, one of my uncles had a cabin on a lake in Wisconsin. My family went there for parts of three summers, and I loved it!
We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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.
One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.'
My grandparents and my aunts tell me that I need to make a name for myself like my mother. Their thoughts really motivate me.
Growing up, my aunts would always put in hair ties and bows and all kinds of stuff, and I always hated it.
Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
I was complimented for looking young and yet was offered roles of aunts, sister-in-law and very soon grandma too!
My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.
When I give my jewelry as a present, I feel like I'm giving protection to someone I care about... I've given pieces to my mom, my aunts, my friends. I've even made bracelets for my dad and my uncle.
My uncles listened to rock and roll like Led Zeppelin. We had MTV, so I saw Adam Ant and Boy George and Def Leppard.
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.
Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.
I come from a family with many dancers, my aunts learnt dance, so did Kamal Haasan and, as a child I learnt it, too.
My father and uncles all encouraged me to play football: every present I ever got would be boots, kit, or a new ball, and that was just how I liked it.
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.
My mother didn't play being disrespectful to women. I was around grandmas and aunts. You learned pretty quick to be respectful!
My family had to leave Vietnam because my uncles fought alongside the Aussies.
I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.
My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.
I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.
I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.
I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.
Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.
My father and a bunch of my cousins and uncles, they didn't have the opportunity to use FaceTime or Skype, all these different technologies and advancements that we have.
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.
Bobby's World touched a lot of people. That's why the family's last name is Generic. Uncle Ted is based on uncles we've all had.
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
My dad's Macedonian, mum Greek... so for as long as I can remember, my uncles have talked about our warrior blood.
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.
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'm a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch.
I never smoked in my life. Neither did my mother. And so many women I meet whose mothers or aunts or whoever who have gotten lung cancer were no-time smokers.
Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.
I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.
I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.
The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.
My mum was a bookies' runner at nine years old and my dad's uncles were Peaky Blinders and gangsters.
It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.
It's senseless. I've lost several uncles, I've lost my best friend to gun violence in New Orleans.
Both my grandfathers were in the Navy, and I have cousins and uncles in the military, so it's something that I've always respected.
There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.
Several of my uncles are comedians. My father is a comedian; my grandfather was known for his jokes. It definitely runs in the family.
I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.
My dad's uncles were illegal bookmakers who were known in the area as Peaky Blinders, that's the stories I heard.
After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism.
Both my uncles were in bands, my grandpa was a comedian who wore clown makeup on stage.
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.
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.
I wanted to be a gangsta from birth, not because of the music but moreso what I was seeing, what my uncles were doing. I was just fascinated with the street lifestyle from a young age.
