Top 1200 Great Aunt Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda

I didn't want to be the aunt where you come over and can't sit on the sofa.

And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother at a party, he noticed her long legs and was like, 'Woo woo!' I like to incorporate those stories into my music. They just seem to fit.

When I was a kid, my aunt snuck us into see 'Boyz n the Hood.'

Dad's mother and aunt were actresses.

I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.

My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.

My paternal uncle and aunt have jobs, and they are the ones who feed the family with a regular income.

They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

I have six siblings but grew up an only child. I was adopted by my aunt and uncle.

If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

My aunt, who plays the role of my mother now, she got her Ph.D.

If I'm not the best aunt in America, then I don't know what's going on.

"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel

I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.

When I was born, I was given to my uncle and aunt to raise as their kid because they couldn't have kids.

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

My aunt and uncle are clearly civilians.

I am so excited to be an aunt.

I lost my aunt to breast cancer.

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me.

Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

I'll admit, I like to be the aunt who spoils my nephews rotten.

My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized or mental.' 'Indeed, they're not mental,' said Mother indignantly. 'Nonsense, Mother... Look at Aunt Bertha, keeping flocks of imaginary cats... and there's Great-Uncle Patrick, who wanders about nude and tells complete strangers how he killed whales with a penknife...They're all bats.

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.

For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in his head. But it turned out that trying to appear tragic in Incontinence, Indiana, was redundant, and his mother kept shouting at him and making him forget his rhymes. "Tommy, if you keep grinding your teeth like that, they'll wear away and you'll have to have dentures like Aunt Ester." Tommy only wished his beard was as heavy as Aunt Ester's---then he could stare out over the moors while he stroked it pensively.

My aunt Marge has been so ill for so long that we've started to call her I can't believe she's not better

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

My mom, my aunt, and my grandma banded together and gave me a village of support when I was growing up.

I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.

The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

Maybe I'll just be a good aunt.

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

Not only do you need great lyrics, a great message, a great story, great vocals, great chords... you also need great instrumentation, great editing, great sonics, great mixing, and great mastering. It all comes together to make something truly great, and I think each element combines together to create a powerful impact on the consumer.

Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote "Dear Sofia" or "Dear Boomer" or "Dear Lily's Great-Aunt" at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote "Dear Lily," was that just a version of "Dear Myself"? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

I make a bad mom, but I can pull off a crazy aunt.

My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.

It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one.

Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.