Top 1200 Great Aunt Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

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

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?'

Once my grandmother's Alzheimer's condition worsened, I was always nervous to get calls from my Aunt Lisa who is her daughter that I was raised with.

Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

Catherine Keener is everyone's dream sister slash mom slash aunt.

Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place.

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.

One look at Rebecca and Aunt B would have an instant apoplexy. Raphael’s eyebrows furrowed. “My mother’s approval isn’t necessary.” Aha. “Does she know that?

Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.

There are firefighters in my family, plus my aunt is now an EMT, and I want to do it, I want to help save lives.

I take my role of being an aunt seriously and have attended every important event/milestone in all my nieces' and nephews' lives.

I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting of a peacock.

My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.

Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

I remember admiring my aunt's - my mom's sister's - fashion, which was very feminine and sexy, but always sophisticated.

I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.

I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.

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 darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

I never thought I would be able to play in Seoul, the city where my mother was raised and I was born, and I was able to perform for my aunt.

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 age 23 to 44 - I'm 45 now - I was always in need of money, and I was especially in need of it from 23 to about 34, and my great aunt would always give me money, a hundred bucks, every two months or so, and a lot of times that hundred bucks made a huge difference - I could eat or pay a small bill. It kept me going. She gave me money. It was very loving.

The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?" (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)

I was born in Senegal in 1996. My mom moved to New York when I was two years old, so I was raised by my aunt back home.

My mother was not very good about keeping clothes; if they were outdated, she'd give them to an aunt or cousins or museums.

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

My dad was a Marine, my aunt is still in the Navy, and my grandfathers both served. So, it's a huge honor for me to represent my country in any way I can.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

An Aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

Glutton things, those are things that are dangerous for me. My grandma and my aunt died of diabetes; I'm borderline diabetic.

I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

Since doing 'Dating in the Dark' and getting engaged, I've become the top agony aunt to all my friends. It's brilliant.

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 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."

When you're thinking, "Why do I have to eat Aunt Sue's casserole with potato chips crumbled on top again?" change that thought to "A couple of bites won't kill me."

Your Great-Aunt Muriel doesn't agree, I just met her upstairs while she was giving Fleur the tiara. "She said 'Oh dear, is this the muggle born?' and then, 'Bad posture, skinny ankles.'" Don't take it personally, she's rude to everyone," said Ron. "Talking about Muriel?" inquired George, reemerging from the marquee with Fred. "Yeah, she's just told me my ears are lopsided. Old bat.

You know, Aunt Tasha makes jokes about how you?d actually be a better queen than the others, except sometimes . . . I don?t think she?s joking.

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.

The idea behind 'Gloria' was to take a secondary character - the aunt, the mother - and stay with her as she becomes our protagonist.

I'm a substitute mom." "You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail.

For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.

My Aunt Marion used to always tell me 'a touch of sun adds an air of intrigue...'

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.