Quotes About Aunt

He got home pretty late that night, and when he climbed cautiously in at the window, he uncovered an ambuscade, in the person of his aunt; and when she saw the state his clothes were in her resolution to turn his Saturday holiday into captivity at hard labor became adamantine in its firmness. CHAPTER

their English aunt, Margaret Kochamma—and their cousin, Sophie Mol, who were coming from London to spend Christmas at Ayemenem.

My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom's sister. She got straight A's when she was a teenager and she used to give me books to read. My father said that the books were a little too old for me, but I liked them so he just shrugged and let me read.

And I made Aunt Helen a promise to only cry about important things because I would hate to think that crying as much as I do would make crying for Aunt Helen less than it is.

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

With my aunt, I definitely can relate to how she makes a movie because she does it with her own demeanor, which isn't this loud presence.

It's like my old Aunt Joan always used to say: if you're going to end up fighting monsters, Pirate Captain, try to stick to ventriloquist's dummies who have gone alive.

Switzerland is only bearable covered with snow, Aunt Augusta said, like some people are only bearable under a sheet.

One of the few remarks of age which I noticed in my aunt was her readiness to abandon one anecdote while it was yet unfinished for another.

Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

Eating breakfast with no gentlemen and that Heartwright girl poaching on my men--this isn't what I was promised." She looked at Aunt Saffronia with the eye of a haggler. Aunt Saffronia placed her hands in her lap, a calming gesture. "I know, my dear, but they will be back, and in the meantime…" "I didn't come here for the meantime. I came for the men.

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.

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

Be careful," Aunt Blythe said. "The floor's riddled with dry rot." Forgetting her own warning, she plunged ahead, opening trunks and boxes, poking and pawing through things, reminiscing.

In the novel A Ghost, A Witch, and a Goblin by Scholastic Book Services, from Baba Yaga, a Russian witch story, the Good Aunt says to her niece, "Because you are so brave and so good, you will be stronger than all the wicked creatures you may meet.

Nothing like a little zombie beheading to take the edge off staking one's aunt.

So Uncle Stuart is marrying that lady? Mom says she's going to be our aunt Amy. She's okay except she would't try any peanut butter M&M chocolate chip fudge cookies. They were good- you ate five, remember? But she said she was on a special diet, and couldn't eat something called carbs. We told her we didn't put any carbs in our cookies, just M&Ms, but she said M&Ms were carbs. Uncle Mitch, what's carbs? email to Uncle Mitch from Haily and Brittany

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.

Good'? my aunt said. Children are good. Dogs are good. This is theater, Jane.

believe I lasted three Sundays before my aunt was asked to take me down the street to the Presbyterians.

My aunt's mouth was a wellspring of thrilling and unpredictable utterances.

She sometimes wishes she'd paid attention to her aunt's remedies for dispelling a careless curse. Is it when you throw salt over your shoulder? Is it when you spit on the floor? Maybe this is the time you spit on your husband; maybe a divorce is what is called for…

Aunty said no, that's where we got our small hands and feet.

Dill was from Meridian, Mississippi, was spending the summer with his aunt, Miss Rachel, and would be spending every summer in Maycomb from now on. His family was from Maycomb County originally, his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars.