Quotes About Uncle

Every family has its black sheep — in ours it was Uncle Petros.

Like him, Uncle had eccentric tastes and liked old things. The difference, Silas was beginning to see, was that Uncle saw such objects as extensions of himself, of his body, essential, required, uniquely his. This thought made Silas uneasy.

When I was a boy, one of my uncles had a cabin on a lake in Wisconsin. My family went there for parts of three summers, and I loved it!

My uncle was a gangster in the real gangster days. I witnessed it, I felt it, I smelt it the situation, I was involved. It was like knowing a movie star.

Uncle Acton spent the whole of his working life in India, for the simple reason that he gave up work very young.

He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle – that should be his tone.

Have you not explained to your friend? She seems confused. I've told her what she needs to know. I would suspect, Nephew, that she needs to know more. Particularly when I see how you look at her. Taka gave another sudden start, but didn't turn. What did his uncle see when he looked at her? Murderous tendencies? Vast annoyance? Or something else? And she looks at you the same way, the old man added, and it was Summer's turn to jump. Definitely vast annoyance, then. And something else.

Ya=hey, he called out to the movement of air, the unseen. A summer before, Uncle Moses listened to his nephew John-John talking a story. John-John was back from college and told Moses that 99 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to the human eye. Ever since, Moses made sure to greet what he could not see.

He says he'd rather be dead than leave me. According to him, we're family. I guess that makes me the psycho uncle no one wants to talk to. And he's the kid with only imaginary friends for company. 'Normal' Rockwell, here we come. (Jared)

Holy crap, Caleb! You're my uncle. Nick No! Caleb It's worse. He's the half-brother of your great-grandfather. Kody You're not helping. Caleb No, but I'm entertaining myself at your adorable expense. Kody Yeah, y'all are missing the important fact. To a Cajun, that makes him my uncle. Nick Great. I always wanted to be a monkey's uncle. Nice to know I finally succeeded. Caleb

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

The detective asked what Charles's demeanor had been when he had taken the bat away from her. Tylee replied that he looked like "a crazy person, screaming and his face was beet red." Ynclan wrote, "He looked like pure rage. Tylee said that was the craziest she had ever seen him. Tylee stated her uncle was kind of calm Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and just standing there in the doorway being protective of her mom.

I got taken in by my uncle Frankie, know to his friends as Butcher Franchetti and to his enemies as 'Oh God no, don't kill my children, Don Franchetti'.

George Washington's brother, Lawrence, was the Uncle of Our Country.

My uncle used to play cricket. I got used to the game at home. As kids we used to all wonder seeing the bats lying around the house. As we grew older, we realised what the game was all about, and then our interest in the game grew.

I worked with him on 'Agneepath,' where we acted together. I played his uncle. Everyone, including Amitabh himself, wondered how I would play his uncle since I was younger than him. I knew what I had to do. I shaved my head, gave myself a receding hairline and some bald patches. He was shocked to see me when he saw me for the first time.

I always wondered, like, you know how you go to the family barbecue, and your uncle is that funny guy that you laugh at because he's family? That's how I felt with 'Fighter and the Kid.' People would laugh at my stuff, but it was always tough for me to tell. I just needed to see if there was something going on.

I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them.

and white wrappers, and this only changed in the 1860s. But Uncle Allan is quite taken with Dickens's and Thackeray's

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!

Not your fight, Jack. (Steele) That never stopped me before. Uncle Cam never cared if I had an issue with someone or not before they had me take their head off. (Jack)

But I'll still be betrothed. Some fun if he's a snob, and most of those court boys are snobs. And what if Uncle says I have to live with the boy's family? At least if he joins ours, I can stick him in the farthest room and pretend he isn't here.

I am walking on their bodies, I thought, we are having lunch in the garden and Uncle Julian is wearing his shawl.