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I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often. -- Bob Balaban
What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door? -- Thomas Malory
Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate. -- Stephanie McMahon
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines. -- Beck
Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded. -- Tim Allen
I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew -- C. S. Lewis
For jokes as well as justice come in with speech. - Aslan, The Magician's Nephew -- C. S. Lewis
Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew -- C. S. Lewis
Adventure is not outside man; it is within. -- George Eliot
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. -- James Allen
If you think I'm fast, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno. -- Ayrton Senna
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. -- Francis of Assisi
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. -- Epicurus
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. -- Albert Schweitzer
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. -- Anais Nin
My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god. -- Ruth Buzzi
There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister. -- Tahj Mowry
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. -- A. A. Milne
I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life. -- Vicky McClure
Two brothers and a sister, my niece, my nephew... we're a very small group. We're very close, very tight-knit. We spend every holiday weekend together. -- Cristela Alonzo
Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport. -- Andrea Hirata
My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association. -- Abby Wambach
Geekiness is that feeling of overwhelming passion for that thing in life that you focus on. Whether it be a nephew's first few steps or the timbre in one's voice when discussing the latest Cohen brothers film. -- Harry Knowles
My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music. -- Charlie Wilson
I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence. -- Lacey Chabert
I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopted her son, and so my nephew became my brother. He was three years older than me, so through him, I was exposed to hip-hop. -- Big Smo
[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions. -- P. G. Wodehouse
I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it. -- Wallace Shawn
It distresses me when I take my seven-year-old nephew out. I cook healthy food, and he wants to go to McDonald's. He doesn't even like the food; he just wants the toys, the Happy Meals. I can't stand to see people walking down the street eating fast food. -- Julia Sawalha
Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education. -- Diana Lopez
To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.' -- Iris Apfel
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
One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just an imaginary one. I had to laugh. Laugh and laugh. Because I didn't know, and I thought that maybe by laughing he would forget what he asked me. -- Jack Handey
Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! -- Andrew Gross
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One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?' -- Natalie Massenet
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said, "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late. -- Jack Handey
It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone. -- Annie Proulx
But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give. -- Jane Austen
To me, my nephew is the angel of my world. It is my absolute happiest moment whenever he smiles at me. -- Li Bingbing
My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear. -- Steven Wright
Come, then," returned the nephew gailyWhat right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough." -- Charles Dickens
Why can't I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That's how I want to love him - through pictures and folklore. -- Ray Romano
The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation. -- E. O. Wilson
Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough. -- Charles Dickens
From a will: And to my communist nephew Oswald, I leave the sum of 10,000 pounds - to be shared equally with his fellow Britishers. -- John Carpenter
Your birthday has come round again so we send this card to say, happy birthday nephew dear lots of love are sent your way. -- Susan Smith
You, know I'm the Queen's favorite great nephew, Well, yeah I'm her only great nephew, but that's not important, I'd still be her favorite... -- Richelle Mead
He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger. -- Seneca the Younger
No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he'd be like the rest of them. -- Meredith Schorr
My nephew's always crying. I'm like, 'Dude, why are you crying? Your life is great. All you do is eat apple sauce and take dumps. That's your day. -- Hannibal Buress
I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it. -- Juan Manuel Fangio
But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! for then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And never be met with again! -- Lewis Carroll
How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich. -- Woody Allen
My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year." -- Milton Berle
She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man. -- Jeff Pearlman

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