Quotes About Uncle

What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me!

Annalise loves to take things out of wherever they've been put away and leave them in little mounds all over the house. Her father, my uncle Eric, says she is chaos incarnate, but actually she's very organized. She knows exactly where everything is.

I was only going to shoot you if he was in one band. And only if it had a name like Uncle Toejam's Acid Crematorium or something. But bluegrass is good, and hey, music is MY life too. Maybe I'll actually like the guy (assuming he's around long enough). Just don't write and tell me you're in the process of stirring up some baby Custard-Mustards.

Making a wish?" Gus asked. I felt myself blush. "No." Bertha nudged Gus. "Tell her about the time you wished your uncle Dean would disappear and then he did," she said. Gus flapped his hand at her. "Aw, now, Bertie. She don't want to hear that boring ole story." He rocked his chair, making the porch floor creak and groan.

I thought: racism is over, sexism is over, bigotry is over. I was in for a rude awakening. It's like a nightmare ... Trump is someone who was around when I was that age, we heard about him all the time. When my uncle came to America we took him to see Trump Tower. I'm middle-aged now, and he's my president? I mean, how is that possible?

I don't know what I mean! Spoke without thinking! Often do! Runs in the family: uncle of mine was just the same. Found himself married to a female with a squint all through speaking without thinking.''Oh, to hell with your uncle!' Martin said angrily. 'No use saying that, dear boy. The old gentleman took a pious turn years back. Won't go to hell – not a chance of it! Aunt might – never met such a queer-tempered woman in my life!

It chances that I'd a letter myself by today's post, from Uncle Jonas Henry.' He chuckled. 'Seemingly he's as throng as he can be, and a trifle hackled with me for loitering here. I shall have to post off to Huddersfield next week, sir - and a bear-garden jaw I'll get when I arrive there, if I know Jonas Henry!

must have been shockingly bored!' 'Nothing of the sort! The man who could be bored in the midst of such a lively family as yours must be an insufferable fellow, above being pleased by anything. By the by, if that uncle of yours does

I am very much obliged to my uncle, but the thought that he might find another way of rescuing me from my dear rake puts me in the liveliest dread!

Jonak says to say he send congratulations and well-wishes and all the things he ought—he was so pleased with himself for being an uncle he couldn't sit still to think them out.

fell to my knees, hugged Uncle Roman, and wept.

hadto honor Uncle Vernon's memory.

The family watched It's a Wonderful Life, which is a very beautiful movie and all I could think was why didn't they make a movie about uncle Billy?...Because he was a drunk and fat and lost all that money in the first place. I wanted an angel to come down and show us how uncle Billy's life had meaning

Ah -dijo-. El hombre maratón. Abrí los ojos solo un poco, para ver si se estaba burlando de mi. -¿Que pasa? -dijo-. Vamos, cuéntaselo al tío Will. -No. -Mi madre va a tener a los de limpieza corriendo como locos por lo menos otra hora. De algo tendrás que hablar.

When the Second World War came to an end in Europe, my uncle Sir Alexander Korda was the first filmmaker to reopen offices in Germany and Austria.

I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of a Sears, Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay.

Who's Beth?" Keri asked. "The bartender at your wedding." "Oh, that's right. How could I forget when my husband almost got thrown out of our own reception for trying to hire her like a hooker or something." "What's a hooker?" Bobby asked. Keri's island tan flushed pink. "Oops." "You put it on the end of a fishing pole, dummy," Brian explained. Bobby frowned. "Uncle Joe tried to hire a worm?

Warm sun and robin's-egg skies were inappropriate conditions for sending one's uncle to a lunatic asylum.

I knew full well that Lane considered himself more family than servant to my uncle, and that my uncle felt the same; the only real question was who considered himself the father and who the child.

It's a token for the arcade games at Laser Sport Time!" Dan hissed. "Uncle Alistair doesn't think so," Amy murmured. "He's a numismatist." "He takes his clothes off in public?" Dan said.

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.

I know, she said. She could. She was really irritating like that. Very, he agreed. There was a thoughtful sadness about him- one that seemed very familiar. I guess she did know what she was doing a little, she said. I got an uncle out of it, at least. Richard stopped pushing his folder and looked up. Yeah. He smiled. It's nice to have a niece, too.

year and ring in the new. Rhubarb, the April fruit. I'm a monkey's uncle.

He actually seemed to want an answer, so I shrugged and said, "A superior who inherited the job from an uncle rams a barge pole up his ass.