Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gladys Knight

I was just being obedient to what my parents saw in me. I was more interested in the things the women in my family, my mom, grandmother and aunt were all about: homemaking and cooking and housekeeping. I wanted to be a housewife and mom.

Martin Landau

His mother died when he was a little kid, his father didn't understand him, and he was raised by an aunt and uncle and a grandfather on a farm. He had a lot of darkness, without question.

Barbara Boxer

He's a wonderful uncle to my grandchild, and Hillary's a wonderful aunt to my grandchild, so I have a very soft spot for that relationship, ... Now, having said that, I have a bright line between my work as a United States senator from the largest state in the union, and what the president has to do.

Jeremy Davies

He's finally starting to get into a groove. He's had a lot to deal with this year with the knee and his aunt dying. He was pretty close to his aunt.

Mary Quant

As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.

John Updike

My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.

William Shenstone

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

Robin Tunney

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

Tyra Banks

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

Don King

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

Margaret Levens

Just to watch the smile on his face when a chopper flew over. He died doing what he wanted. That was his passion and I know he was happy.

Michael Arrington

Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.

Nadrine Stocker

I think it may have just been stress. My grandmother died on Feb. 9 the year before and I was thinking about that and it may have triggered the labor.

Pat Lewis

I always come on the holidays. We're like family. And Easter is a time of family gathering. God gave us his only son to show us he was our living savior. His son died for our sins and rose again, and that's really important. It's a day to give thanks to God.

Craig Reid

He'd been ill for about a year. He was a heavy drinker and smoker and he had problems with his heart. He was wasting away. By the end, it was a relief because he was in so much pain and he was so weak. He died in the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and we were all there.

Solomon Ortiz

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

Suzanne Fields

The rains in Washington on the day that Pope John Paul II died were unusually ferocious, as if the heavens were weeping with uncontrollable sadness.

Yogesh Bhattarai

He was shot in his head and he died instantly.

Bruce Larner

Joe's a good player, but he's only a sophomore. His father used to teach at Okemos, so I had a feeling he'd have a big game for us.

Randy Price

He was a father figure to all of us.

John Cornyn

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

Keith Gilbertson

He comes from lineage of tough people. His grandfather was a great football player at Idaho. His father was a great player at Boise State. He comes by this naturally. He's the next generation of tough guys.

Joan Robinson

He is still the same manipulative person who has used the system, and it dishonors the life of my father and the life of Jackie Pigott.

Galeazzo Ciano

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Steve Wallace

Her father managed the officers' mess and Gloria was the cashier.

Yiddish Proverb

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble

Michael Brown

His whole life was his family. It's a tragic situation for everyone involved. These two young children, they have no mother, no father and no grandma.

Taylor Bennett

I was in shock. I thought my mother was kidding. She called me and told me the school and I was stunned.

John Nicks

Her mother called me, and I think she was perhaps a little apprehensive about my reaction. But I was very positive. I was only too pleased.

Susan Wyderko

We treat callers as if they were our own mother or a relative.

Connie King

It has been a very rough year. Mother Nature hasn't done us any favors.

Anton LaVey

My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.

Elizabeth Black

I didn't want his mother to see his blood.

Kerry Leitch

I did the same as my mother would have done me in a situation like that.

Linda Lavin

He taught me how to sing, how to belt, what my mother was talking about all those years. I had no idea I had that power in my voice.

Harry Kampenga

Had to go to church. Mother made us.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

James Gimpel

He hasn't spent that much because he hasn't raised that much.

Robert De Niro

Every set up that you do, everything is precisely modulated and raised and lowered.”

Mike Bianco

Right now, sugar is not so sweet. Everybody's raised their prices.

Ernie Fletcher

I had a very successful fundraiser here in Louisville. We raised about $150,000,

Ron Dean

The first year we did it, we raised $20,000.

Terry Bennett

That sentence was never raised from my lips,

Scott Porter

I was raised around music.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Two Chainz

You know, my uncle wore a lot of jewelry, a lot of gold chains.

Robert Cormier

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

Richelle Mead

Dad told Uncle Seth not to screw things up,” she informed me as we washed our hands. “He said even if Uncle Seth is famous, him getting a woman like you defies belief.” I laughed and smoothed down the skirt of my dress. “I don’t know about that. I don’t think your dad gives your uncle enough credit." Brandy gave me a sage look, worthy of someone much older. “Uncle Seth spent last Valentine’s Day at a library.

Russell B. Long

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

Woody Guthrie

Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."

Woody Allen

If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.

Woody Allen

As I've gotten older, the parts have diminished. I liked it when I was younger, I could always play the lead in the movie and I could do all the romantic scenes with the women, and it was fun and I liked to play that. Now, I'm older and I'm reduced to playing the backstage doorman or the uncle or something. I don't really love that so occasionally, when a part comes up, I'll play it.

Sarah Silverman

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

Robert Duvall

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

James Patterson

What you have to understand is that Michael's film isn't really a documentary. It's a portrait,

Sen. Tsutsui

I think it's important for residents to understand what they're getting for their $40 million.

Charles Jackson

I think a lot of us don't understand circumstantial evidence.

Cervantes Saavedra

It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write

Leonard Hamilton

He's getting a better understanding of his strengths.

Johnny Damon

Hopefully, they cheer. If not, I understand because I'm wearing the Yankees uniform.

Mike Petersen

I don't know (the family). But it didn't take long to understand their predicament.