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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. -- Rudyard Kipling
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie? -- Billy Wilder
Take a little walk down Know You Role Boulevard, hang that right on Jabroni Drive, and then proceed to check your Aunt Jemima no-pancake-havin' ass di-rectly into the Smackdown Hotel! -- Dwayne Johnson
I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc. -- George Seaton
Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records. -- Elliott Carter
I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes. -- George Eads
My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning. -- Robert Ripley
It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time. -- Larry David
Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece. -- Gillian Anderson
It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one. -- Allan Carr
We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice. -- Margaret Atwood
Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming. -- Lord Mountbatten
Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door. -- Charles M. Schulz
They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt. -- Queen Elizabeth II
My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it. -- Dick Dale
My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt. -- Princess Margaret
I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen. -- Robin Tunney
Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on. -- Katherine Anne Porter
One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda -- Eva Ibbotson
Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it. -- Rita Mae Brown
Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night. -- Benjamin Franklin
My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman. -- Karolyn Grimes
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous. -- Sister Parish
Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants. -- Ray Davies
Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
My Aunt Marion used to always tell me 'a touch of sun adds an air of intrigue...' -- Tim Quinn
Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live. -- Eleanor Porter
But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy. ... -- Gene Stratton-Porter
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children. -- Kate DiCamillo
I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley. -- Little Richard
Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer -- Mark Twain
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last. -- William Shenstone
I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?' -- Stevie Nicks
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 Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous. -- Harry Graham
Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie. -- Linda Sunshine
My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.' -- Edward Abbey
I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole. -- Pat Conroy
Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel "? Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig. -- J. K. Rowling
It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them. -- P. G. Wodehouse
I will thank you not to be impertinent," said Aunt Josephine, using a word which here means "pointing out that I'm wrong, which annoys me". -- Lemony Snicket
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in. -- Marcelene Cox
It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and she's his moral compass. -- Marisa Tomei
Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning. -- Rita Mae Brown
This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18. -- Tori Amos
One look at Rebecca and Aunt B would have an instant apoplexy. Raphael's eyebrows furrowed. "My mother's approval isn't necessary." Aha. "Does she know that? -- Ilona Andrews
We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats. -- Temple Grandin
You know, Aunt Tasha makes jokes about how youÊ¹d actually be a better queen than the others, except sometimes . . . I donÊ¹t think sheÊ¹s joking. -- Richelle Mead
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances" -- Alice Hoffman
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances -- Alice Hoffman
When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?" (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel) -- Peter S. Beagle
Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair. -- Hannah Whitall Smith
For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look! -- Lulu
Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary. -- Margaret Atwood
Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine." -- Rachel Higginson
One thing about my Aunt Nadie: She was gruff on the outside, but if you ever needed something, like a spanking or a scolding, she'd give it to you. -- Jack Handey
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Andrea raised her hand. "This is the hand that slapped Aunt B." "Maybe you should have it gold-plated." "Here, you can touch it, since you're my best friend. -- Ilona Andrews
When you're thinking, "Why do I have to eat Aunt Sue's casserole with potato chips crumbled on top again?" change that thought to "A couple of bites won't kill me." -- Mary Schmich
I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!' -- Julia Roberts
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles. -- Brooke Shields
Was she telling you to stay away from me?" I asked. He paused, then said, "Yeah." He squeezed my hand out of Aunt Lauren's sight. "It's okay. We're good." Chloe and Derek -- Kelley Armstrong
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties. -- Donna Tartt
Swithin! And the fellow had gone and died, last November, at the age of seventy-nine, renewing the doubt whether Forsytes could live for ever, which had first arisen when Aunt Ann passed away." -- John Galsworthy
My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food. -- Giada De Laurentiis
But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before. -- Mark Twain
On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar. -- Thomas Jefferson
Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious. -- Carlos Mencia
Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him. -- J. K. Rowling
They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth. -- Tina Yothers
There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. -- Margaret Atwood
The tolerance of the public is diminishing. We're spending time on the wrong people. It's nutty. There has to be a better way. Why are we stripsearching Aunt Molly from Iowa and letting on Richard Reid? -- Donald J. Carty
The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm. -- Louisa May Alcott
I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV. -- George Lopez
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. -- Kate Douglas Wiggin
I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it. -- George Clooney
Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. Iâ??m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. Thatâ??s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together. -- Oscar Wilde
Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world canâ??t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese. -- L.M. Montgomery
To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can use unlesss I write them down, for Aunt Miranda always says, Keep your thoughts to yourself. -- Kate Douglas Wiggin
Don't talk like that, Dill," said Aunt Alexandra. "It's not becoming to a child. It's "? cynical." "I ain't cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin' the truth's not cynical, is it?" "The way you tell it, it is. -- Harper Lee
Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques. -- Calvin Trillin
I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, she'd probably say that sexual intercourse was like a deer getting antlers or something. -- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
One of my favorite places in San-Francisco is Aunt Charlies drag show. You pay $3 and see shows that literally give you goose bumps and bring you to tears. As a performer, you know they're giving 100% and you can't help but cry. -- Christopher Owens
Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too! -- Lori Lansens
Aunt B walked out onto the helipad wearing loose yoga pants. "I'm just here to stretch. Kate, want to help?" "Sure." Thirty seconds later, as I was flying through the air, I decided that this wasn't the best idea. -- Ilona Andrews
I think we got in more trouble with Aunt Tasha,Êº said Christian. ÊºShe was kind of pissed off that we didnÊ¹t tell her what was going on. I think she probably wanted to blow up the statues herself. -- Richelle Mead
Aunt Libby: "I think I'm getting married! I've been dying to tell you." Raven: "You are? Congrats! Dad didn't mention..." Aunt Libby: "Well, okay, it's not official or anything. In fact, we haven't officially gone out yet. I just met him last night. -- Ellen Schreiber
When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word. -- E. B. White
The scheme had been, if I remember, that after lunch I should go off and caddy for Honoria on a shopping tour down Regent Street; but when she got up and started collecting me and the rest of her things, Aunt Agatha stopped her. -- P. G. Wodehouse
My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles. -- Mike Krzyzewski
Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English. -- Heather Brewer
It's a sweet thing, faith. With it, you can handle any circumstance, any crisis, because you know God always has your back. And when God is for you, who can be against you? Nobody. As my Aunt Hattie says, "One and God are a majority." -- Patti LaBelle
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss. -- Natasha Trethewey
I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one. -- Paul McCartney
The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah! -- James Whitcomb Riley
We stood there, the three of us, our jaws firmly planted on the floor. Aunt Lil recovered first. She nudged me with her elbow and said with a cackle of delight, "I think you guys should make some more of those brownies, 'cause that boy looks hungry. -- Darynda Jones
Bertie, it is imperative that you marry.But, dash it all...Yes! You should be breeding children to...No, really, I say, please! I said, blushing richly. Aunt Agatha belongs to two or three of these women's clubs, and she keeps forgetting she isn't in the smoking-room. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Ben: "Gorog's no assassin! She's my best friend." Mara: "She's an insect, Ben." Ben: "So? Your best friend's a lizard." Mara: "Don't be ridiculous. Aunt Leia is my best friend." Ben: "Doesn't count. She's family. Saba is a lizard." Mara: "Okay, maybe my best friend's a lizard. -- Troy Denning
My initial introduction to him was - this is a funny story... My Aunt Marian, my entire life growing up, told me that I looked like Charlie Chaplin. That didn't really resonate with me when I was younger - I hadn't seen a lot of his films. -- Rob McClure
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss. -- Natasha Trethewey
Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was. -- Harper Lee
Do you have spies in Clan Heavy?" "I have spies everywhere." I looked at Andrea, who was hoarding bacon on her plate. "She had tea with Mahon's wife." Andrea said. Aunt B looked at her. "You and I need to work on your air of mystery. -- Ilona Andrews
I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress. -- Felicia Day
I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world. -- Bailee Madison
I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt. -- Ann B. Davis
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago. -- Ziggy Marley
I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas. -- Cher
I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me. -- Temple Grandin
I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J. -- Jessie J
I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother. -- Barbara Windsor
At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness. -- Jill Scott
I was so afraid to go out west to my aunt's ranch. But the only choice my mother gave me was to go for two weeks or all summer. I wound up staying all summer. And that's where I learned about cattle. I could relate to their behavior, their fears. -- Temple Grandin
I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel. -- Andy Cohen
Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.' -- Martha Beck
I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish. -- Kelly Clarkson
My parents separated before I was 1 year old. I moved in with my aunt and uncle when I was in fourth grade. I was, like, 8 or 9 years old. I was getting in a lot of trouble when I was in Southern California. My older sisters were in gangs. My older brother was in gangs. -- Troy Polamalu
I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the rules of being a Southern Belle. One of the rules was to never wear white after Labor Day. Fashion has a lot to do with confidence and making up your own rules. -- Kourtney Kardashian

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