Top 233 Uncles Quotes & Sayings

Several of my uncles are comedians. My father is a comedian; my grandfather was known for his jokes. It definitely runs in the family.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let them meet or play with them. You just showed them pictures of them, and told them to memorize their names. Each day you'd have them recite the names, over and over again. You'd say, "OK, this is a picture of your great-aunt Beatrice. Her husband was your great-uncle Earnie. They had three children, your uncles Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo. Harpo married your aunt Leonie ... yadda, yadda, yadda."

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.

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.

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 dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

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.

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 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.

We all played sports, my brothers, my daddy, my uncles. That's all we had.

I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

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 mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

Three of my uncles served in the Armed Forces.

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've been truly protected by my uncles.

When we used to watch some BBC kids' shows it felt like some of the presenters were parental figures, we wanted to be their cheeky uncles really, their fun uncles, and speak to them on their level.

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

After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism.

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

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.

My family had to leave Vietnam because my uncles fought alongside the Aussies.

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

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.

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

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

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.

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.

My dad's Macedonian, mum Greek... so for as long as I can remember, my uncles have talked about our warrior blood.

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.

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.

It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.

My uncles listened to rock and roll like Led Zeppelin. We had MTV, so I saw Adam Ant and Boy George and Def Leppard.

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

My uncles were all funny. My dad wasn't funny, but my uncles were all funny. Now I go back and I like him better than them, they were manipulative funny.

My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned in the Sea of Singapore, having been fighting for the Royal Navy behind enemy lines, Japanese lines, in the hinterland of Singapore.

One of my uncles played in The Isleys. I went to all their shows.

One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.'

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

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.

My mum was a bookies' runner at nine years old and my dad's uncles were Peaky Blinders and gangsters.

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

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

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.

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.

My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.

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.

Both my uncles were in bands, my grandpa was a comedian who wore clown makeup on stage.

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.