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Quotes About Uncle

I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.
~ Christopher Titus
The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
~ Isaac Brock
When people compare me to him... it's like 'wow' maybe they see me on his level but I don't believe I am there yet. It is what it is, he's a skilful player, I'm quite skilful myself so they are always going to compare me to him especially that he's my uncle.
~ Alex Iwobi
It was just so cool to put on my uncle's masks and wrestle with him. I knew that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a part of this world.
~ Rey Mysterio
Growing up in wrestling, I would see my uncle put on his mask before he walked into auditoriums. The kids would run up to him and ask for autographs and pictures, and seeing him lacing up his boots in the locker room and putting on his mask before heading to the ring, that was all so real to me. That was the modern day superhero to me.
~ Rey Mysterio
That's really what drew me into wrestling. To see my own uncle put on the mask every Friday to go into the ring, and me putting on his masks to play wrestle with him. It was a whole different world when it came down to sports.
~ Rey Mysterio
The minister wore a light blue, three-piece suit, an obvious hairpiece, and a gold wedding band. No watch. No other jewelry. Nothing ostentatious. His face was gentle, trusting—the face of a dear uncle or friendly neighbor. His bright smile, one of his biggest assets, was firmly set. "Thank
~ Harlan Coben
Think, guys. What was strange about the story Uncle Goerge told us?" "That a woman outsmarted the men", Mike said. For which he received a scowl that did a thunderstorm justice.
~ Sigmund Brouwer
It's not your uncle Harvey again, is it?" I said. "The one who thinks he's a giant rabbit?
~ Simon R. Green
And I have soldier dolls! My uncle Garrett bough them for me.
~ Maya Banks
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
~ Meg Cabot
Our family wasn't particularly warm, or effusive with the I love you's. Except for Uncle Chris, who'd come out of prison bursting with them. He'd even told the mail carrier that he loved him.
~ Meg Cabot
The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle and my own father and courtier after courtier, I assure you I am unrivaled at pretending not to notice other people's glances.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
This is none of your concern,' his uncle spat. 'I beg to differ,' Sebastian said quietly. 'A lady in distress is always my concern.
~ Julia Quinn
You're on Facebook, Uncle Reid?" Athens asked. "Of course he is," Liliana said. "That's where all the old people go to waste their time." "Hey,
~ Farrah Rochon
Uncle Miles was napping in his seat, blithely and easily as a puppy on a rug.
~ Frances Hardinge
My theory of literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness—writes about people you could introduce into your own home. I agree with my Uncle Sydney, as I once heard him say he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals, as you know from my telling you my theory of life.
~ Booth Tarkington
Good God, girl!" shouted her uncle. "It was an army of individuals! They walked off their farms and walked to the War!
~ Harper Lee
As he turned to go, Jean Louise called to him. "Uncle Jack," she said. "What does D.V. mean?" Dr. Finch sighed his you-have-no-education-young-woman sigh, raised his eyebrows, and said: "Deo volente. 'God willin',' child. 'God willin'.' A reliable Catholic utterance.
~ Harper Lee
I scurried to my room and went to bed. Uncle Jack was a prince of a fellow not to let me down. But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said.
~ Harper Lee
When uncle Jack caught me, he kept me laughing about a preacher who hated going to church so much that every day he stood at his gate in his dressing-gown, smoking a hookah and delivering fice-minutes sermons to any passers-by who desired spiritual comfort.
~ Harper Lee
Mad, mad, mad as a hatter. Well, that's the way of all Finches. Difference between Uncle Jack and the rest of 'em, though, is he knows he's crazy.
~ Harper Lee
Jean Louise was accustomed to her uncle's brand of intellectual shorthand: it was his custom to state one or two isolated facts, and a conclusion seemingly unsupported thereby. Slowly and surely, if prodded correctly, Dr. Finch would unwind the reel of his strange lore to reveal reasoning that glittered with a private light of its own.
~ Harper Lee
Rose Aylmer was Uncle Jack's cat. She was a beautiful yellow female Uncle Jack said was one of the few women he could stand permanently.
~ Harper Lee