Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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.

Tucker Carlson

Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep... an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home... [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.

Rodney Dangerfield

I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house...so he moved.

Roberto Bolano

I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. I’m an orphan, and someday I’ll be a lawyer. That’s what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night.

Ronnie Wood

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.

Teju Cole

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Jessica Pare

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

Julie Brown

I was always trying to do things to make school fun.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Jan Murphy

I think we've done just about everything that can be done on a school vacation.

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Joanna Newsom

I went to school to become a composer.

Tyra Banks

I went to school for me - I didn't do it to make any sort of statement. So the very first year I was in school, I wasn't there under my own name. It was very incognito.

Didi Conn

I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

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.

William Shenstone

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

Ada Leverson

Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

Jim Hightower

His aunt lives right down the street from school and he had been to STM before as a player in our Sunkist basketball tournament, ... He showed up the morning of our Labor Day practice.

Kelley Armstrong

Was she telling you to stay away from me?" I asked. He paused, then said, "Yeah." He squeezed my hand out of Aunt Lauren's sight. "It's okay. We're good." Chloe and Derek

Diane Ruggiero

Doing 'Veronica Mars,' Rob Thomas is a genius. He's one of my best friends. I had this feeling like I couldn't write anything other than my stuff in Jersey and what we were talking about, like that little world, like if I can throw my Aunt Janice into it, I'm cool, but otherwise I'm screwed.

Jay Leno

It's mostly a family story. It's about my mom and my dad. And I come from one of those homes where every Sunday was a huge Italian dinner with cousins and aunts and uncles.

John McNulty

They'll leave anything incompatible with their view on the cutting-room floor. 60 Minutes is to journalism what Charley's Aunt is to criminology.

Rovenia Brock

When Great-Aunt Martha says uncle so-and-so had a 'touch of sugar,' it means he had diabetes. When someone says aunt so-and-so was senile, it could mean she had Alzheimer's disease. When someone had 'hardening of the arteries,' it usually means coronary artery disease. 'Spells,' 'fits' and all of those old-fashioned terms all translate to modern medical conditions you could be at risk for.