Aunts Quotes

Italians and Greeks have uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents as far as the eye can see. — Joe Novella

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us. — Vera Farmiga

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic. — Agatha Christie

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom. — Jane Smiley

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven. — Doris Day

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love. — Amos Lee

It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof. — P.G. Wodehouse

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners. — Randall Jarrell

Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp. — David Nicholls

I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me. — Anne Lamott

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. — Bryan Clay

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts — Jane Austen

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators. — Daryl Gregory

Amish children are usually named after aunts or uncles or some other relation. Keeps the family names going. — Sarah Price

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers. — David Lloyd George

My aunts still try to fatten me up. — Randy Wayne White

It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts. — George Orwell

God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts. — Anonymous

When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage. — Mario Batali

I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars. — Jasmine Guinness

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer. — Robert Cormier

Aunt Letty was a very tough old lady: aunts often were in those days. — C.S. Lewis

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen — P.G. Wodehouse

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically. — Honeysuckle Weeks

All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say 'Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!' — Darren Criss

There was a group of six women in my household. My mom, aunts and grandma. I watched them in the kitchen. — George Tillman Jr.

Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts. — J.K. Rowling

Don't they put aunts in Turkey in sacks and drop them in the Bosphorus?' 'Odalisques, sir, I understand. Not aunts. — P.G. Wodehouse

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six. — Simon Newcomb

The aunts' conception of the right to privacy went far enough to allow you to close the toilet door when you were peeing, but no further. — Zen Cho

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like. — James Patterson

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street. — Bruce Springsteen

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen. — Robin Tunney

My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house. — Becky G

My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry. — Ethel Waters

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry ... — Phyllis McGinley

I knew nothing about my mum's family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brought up by two aunts, and she only ever met one uncle. — Jasmine Guinness

Do you have anyone in mind, Hugo?" the duke asked. "Not really." Hugo sighed. "I have an army of female cousins and aunts who would be only too — Mary Balogh

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. — Henry David Thoreau