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I had a very crazy aunt and uncle who we traded my brother Webster to for a Siamese cat. It was heaven to live with my aunt and uncle because you got spoiled to death. -- Rex Smith
Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry ... -- Phyllis McGinley
Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. -- Bryan Clay
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
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
I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it. -- Agatha Christie
Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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
My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain. -- Jeff Ross
Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family. -- Henry B. Eyring
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
But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves. -- Rachel Vincent
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
Harry, I've left a letter telling your aunt and uncle not to worry--" "They won't," said Harry. "That you're safe--" "That'll just depress them." "--and you'll see them next summer." "Do I have to? -- J. K. Rowling
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. -- Jason Alexander
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
I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me. -- Mohsin Hamid
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. -- Ellen Pompeo
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
I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple. -- Patti Davis
My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment. -- Lisa Unger
I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone. -- Sarah Dessen
Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical time. -- M. Russell Ballard
I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven. -- Doris Day
The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. -- Henry David Thoreau
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like. -- James Patterson
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
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
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
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
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all. -- Fanny Fern

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