Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Another great benefit of the program is that parents can designate a child's school, and grandparents, aunts and uncles can also participate. Even neighbors can select a local school and participate in the program.

Because I stuttered, my aunt told me I had to learn to spell, and spell very well,

Reynolds Price

Everybody was there. A bachelor aunt or uncle. You would all come to the table, even some stone-deaf member of the family, usually the oldest ... and he would mumble something under his breath.

Andre Holland

Everybody gathered at my Aunt Hannah's house, and we sat around and talked, ate, drank and told lies. That's what people do, and I just sat there and listened.

We just need to find someone to petition for guardianship on our behalf, but no one will touch this case pro bono. The cheapest rate I've found, they wanted $2,000 up front. I don't have $2,000 and my aunt doesn't have $2,000, so there is nothing we can do right now.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

This is getting ugly.” – Abigail “Like my great-aunt’s underpants.” – Sundown

Ray Bradbury

I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.

Lulu

For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look!

Michael Steger

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

Oscar Wilde

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

Sister Parish

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

P. G. Wodehouse

You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on the fragments in hobnailed boots, but you are mistaken. It would be a genuine pleasure. By an odd coincidence I brought a pair of hobnailed boots with me!' So saying, and recognising a good exit line when he saw one, he strode out, and after an interval of tense meditation I followed him. (Spode to Wooster)

P. G. Wodehouse

This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth.

P. G. Wodehouse

It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.

Initially, we wanted to make sure that, if the storm continued on a path toward New Orleans and the smart thing was to evacuate, my 80-something-year-old aunt knew she could come to Baton Rouge. These evacuations are necessary every few years, and, in fact, my aunt came to Baton Rouge last September during a storm that came near New Orleans.

Brandon Thomas

I'm Charley's aunt from Brazil - where the nuts come from. (Charley's Aunt 1892)

Brian Wilson

I had a little nerves in the first set and he has a great serve. I wanted to block his first serve low and take some chances when I had a good look. It feels great. My mom and dad flew up from San Diego and my aunt was here and it makes it feel better. It feels good to win my first ATP match.

I miss my aunt and my uncle very much and there are not enough words to express how much they mean to me.

It's been a fabulous experience for me. I get the middle-of-the-night calls at 3 in the morning telling their Aunt Sue they won (their regional) and they're coming. They keep in touch with me throughout the year, too.

Scott Steiner

It's always good to see my aunts and uncles and my cousins, people I grew up with.

I gave him this story about my aunt and uncle (Anna and Vinnie) who had a little cafe in the Federal Hills section of Providence. All the wise guys would go in there and they befriended my aunt and uncle.

Dorothy Nolte

I had a good extended family, ... There were several aunts and uncles who were really interested in the family. And our neighbors were great. There were kids on either side of where we lived. It was a fairly large community.

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.

But, I think it is possible. I'm waiting for my aunt in Miami to explain more to us.

We decided to get creative and put up toilets instead of a fence. I had an aunt who did this one time with one toilet. But she had real flowers in it.

Meghan Trainor

Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.

Joanna Lumley

They're not group animals, they're completely solitary, so if the baby's mother is taken away, there's no system of aunts ... their whole system is destroyed.

Doug Jones

The ride's boring, ... but it is fun because I don't have to go to school and I get to see my grandma and grandpa and aunt and uncle.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.

Frank Carlucci

These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.

George Clooney

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.