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Quotes About Uncle

You've got your own little heist society and now you're gonna rob the Henley." He turned and started moving down the busy street. "Call Uncle Eddie, Kat. Tell him it's over. You're out.
~ Ally Carter
Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.
~ Willard Scott
I'm not into being all 'film-y' and going to the premieres and parties. I tend to feel like the embarrassing uncle at a wedding.
~ Simon Beaufoy
The Reeve collects the rents and taxes which those who dwell on the manor must pay to my uncle regularly for their housing and farms — and for other privileges such as the right to collect firewood in the forest.
~ Richard Platt
Will you vouch for him if he stays?" "My uncle?" Adrian asked. "Hell no. I haven't seen him in years. I don't know antyhing about him.
~ Richelle Mead
Paul a smart kid," Hawk said. "I know." "And he pretty strong," Hawk said. "He is." "Got from his uncle," Hawk said. "Uncle Hawk?" "Sho' nuff." "Jesus Christ," I said.
~ Robert B. Parker
Stone touched the air with the tip of his chopstick as if he was dotting an i with a quill pen. "Your talker there, he's Sang Ki Park. He doesn't run the gang. That would be his uncle, Young Min Park. Sang is the second in command. They're Ssang Yong Pa—the Double Dragon gang—straight out of the R-O-K. Hard-core and nasty." ROK was the Republic of Korea. I
~ Robert Crais
Kosmina adored her new "foulmouthed but well-intentioned uncle." Because, as she put it, "Perhaps we aren't meant to understand him. Perhaps he's as much a puzzle as he is a puzzle master." Hear, hear, Kosmina. But I'm still sending your ass to Louisiana.
~ Kresley Cole
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
~ L. Frank Baum
the new farmhouse Uncle Henry built after the cyclone had carried away the old one.
~ L. Frank Baum
Avery, did the ever-delightful Thea Calligaris happen to mention that her uncle is married to my aunt?" Zara's last name was Hawthorne-Calligaris. "I hear Zara and your uncle are looking for ways to challenge the will." Xander gave every appearance of talking to Thea, but I got the distinct feeling that he was really issuing a warning to me. Don't trust Thea.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I am pansexual as I actually remember also being attracted to women as well and thinking that maybe this like, thing where I was attracted to men was just like some weird phase or if it was something I could just ignore. My mom is queer and I have a queer uncle. So, I wasn't completely, you know, shielded from queer representation.
~ Bob the Drag Queen
I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
~ Carlene Carter
Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
My mother's brother, my uncle, was an actor, quite well known in the West End. He used to come over to our house, and he and I would put on performances for my family. From that, this love of performing and acting grew.
~ Sonoya Mizuno
Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.
~ Rick Danko
My mother's brother became the undersecretary of the interior for Nixon, which did cause a little drama in my family because I was going to riots and everything, but he turned out great and gave us a nice cheque for an AIDS benefit we had for the 'Serial Mom' premiere.
~ John Waters
Going to fetch Uncle Analdas. Have you been by the Hill? Just left there, Robin answered. Everybody's excited. Seems there's new Folks coming. Yes, I know, cried Little Georgie eagerly. I've just made a song about it. Wouldn't you like to hear it? It goes like - No, thanks, called Robin.
~ Robert Lawson
Felicity, if I die from the effects of eating sawdust pudding, flavoured with needles, you'll be sorry you ever said such a thing to your poor old uncle, said Uncle Roger reproachfully.
~ L.M. Montgomery
These modern novels that leave everything unfinished annoy me... But things are often unfinished in real life, said Pat... All the more reason why they should come right in books, said Uncle Horace testily. Real life! We get enough real life living. I like fairy tales. I like a nice snug tidy ending in a book with all the loose ends tucked in.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Lust magic is the same as date-rape drugs in human court, Uncle Taranis.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Who are these people with you?' And Uncle Jamie managed to make people sound as if what he meant was fuckers, but was too polite to say it. Micah
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Meredith," Taranis said, "how can you insult me like this? These men attacked a lady of my court, savaged her. Yet you stand there with them…touching you, as if they are your court favorites." "But, uncle, they are some of my favorites." "Meredith," he said, and he sounded shocked, like an elderly relative who just heard you say "fuck" for the first time. Biggs
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father.   Not I, quoth my uncle.   ââ'¬â€But you have some ideas, said my father, of what you talk about.—   No more than my horse, replied my uncle Toby.
~ Laurence Sterne