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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. -- R. Lee Ermey
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
If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater. -- Harriet Tubman
George Washington's brother, Lawrence, was the Uncle of Our Country. -- George Carlin
I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece. -- Vera Farmiga
I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it. -- Dominic Chianese
If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam. -- Ray Stevens
Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself. -- Bob Dylan
I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms. -- Jalen Rose
[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast. -- Don Herold
I received my Greetings from Uncle Sam in May 1943. I applied for the Air Force. -- Desi Arnaz
I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Save the people you love, who cares about the rest of the world? - Uncle Jake -- Michael Buckley
You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money? -- Billy Joel
If 10 percent is good enough for the Lord, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam. -- Paul Broun
Uncle Remus, who said to Uncle Ben, You're a credit to your rice. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. -- David Amram
Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry"¦ -- Harper Lee
Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right. -- Willard Scott
Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache. -- J. K. Rowling
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam. -- Olin Miller
Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb. -- J. K. Rowling
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam. -- Olin Miller
If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due. -- Alveda King
Got a house on the hill, cost a couple of mill, Juicy J got bank like Uncle Phil. -- Juicy J
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language. -- Jill Stein
We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock. -- John F. Kennedy
Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie -- Ally Carter
My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president. -- Alveda King
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. -- P. G. Wodehouse
I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley. -- Little Richard
Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much. -- Kim Weston
But, Dad! We can't leave. Uncle Jake is hurt!" Daphne said. "Besides, that's Pinocchio. I want to get an autograph. -- Michael Buckley
Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well." -Uncle Charles -- Ally Carter
I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it. -- Clarence Thomas
...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. -- Smedley Butler
I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters. -- Russell B. Long
Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits." -David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme- -- Lora Leigh
Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry. -- Will Shetterly
Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle. -- Malcolm X
Bobby's World touched a lot of people. That's why the family's last name is Generic. Uncle Ted is based on uncles we've all had. -- Howie Mandel
A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent -- Irwin Schiff
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
You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes" - Uncle Paton Yewbeam -- Jenny Nimmo
I don't want to be rude to the afflicted but Uncle Eddie is bald in a way which is the baldest I have ever seen. -- Louise Rennison
Does Uncle Bob have anything?" "I heard he has an STD." "I mean on the women." "Oh, I have no idea if they have any STDs. -- Darynda Jones
It's good to see you, little one." He (Uncle Eddie) scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you. -- Ally Carter
I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it whether you need it or not.-Uncle John -- John Steinbeck
You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam? -- Ben Feldman
I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak, Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep. -- Q-Tip
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable. -- Roger Rosenblatt
As a broad generalization, big businesses have no moral objections to being whores. Getting into bed with Uncle Sam is all a question of price, not principle. -- Jonah Goldberg
Uncle Jeb," we croaked in surprise. "You found us." "Well, now," he said, and his gruff voice brought back a hundred memories. "Well, now, here's a pickle. -- Stephenie Meyer
Uncle Sam is forcing integration only because he's trying to impress the people of - abroad that he's morally qualified to be the leader of the world. -- Malcolm X
I never met my Uncle Jack. My mom was six months pregnant with me when he died. But I knew his wife and two kids very well. -- Mark Shriver
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it. -- Miles Davis
For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing. -- Dominic Chianese
I may drink too much and play too loud, hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd. That don't mean I don't respect my mama or Uncle Sam. -- Tracy Byrd
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
Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. "Leave it to us, Uncle. I've got a plan." "That," I said, "sounds like very bad news. -- Rick Riordan
In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong. -- Michael Ruse
Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you. -- George R. R. Martin
Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one. -- Cate Blanchett
I have a lot of respect for His Majesty Juan Carlos. I call him Uncle Juan because he is an extraordinary person whom I have known for a long time. -- Mohammed VI of Morocco
i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm) -- e. e. cummings
Well, I can't (sing or dance). Actually, I sing like a seal and dance like your Uncle Leo at that wedding where he got up and went 'ya, ya, ya'. -- Richard Dreyfuss
Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this. -- Dominic Chianese
Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country? -- Malcolm X
That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian... um, Christ, I lost it. I was going for something thick. So what's with the beard, Grizzly Fouts? -- Dennis Miller
When I go to China, people call me 'Uncle Mo' because they refer me as Yao Ming's uncle. I'm pleased to be his uncle as long as he listens to me! -- Dikembe Mutombo
It's a token for the arcade games at Laser Sport Time!" Dan hissed. "Uncle Alistair doesn't think so," Amy murmured. "He's a numismatist." "He takes his clothes off in public?" Dan said. -- Peter Lerangis
She sees ghosts,? said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,? I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn't thought he'd be a moviegoer. -- Patricia Briggs
They run off eckeltricity, do they?" he said knowledgeably. "Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs," he added to Uncle Vernon. "And batteries. Got a large collection of batteries. -- J. K. Rowling
It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over. -- Alice Hegan Rice
Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to. -- Margaret Whiting
Shhh, it's okay Cait, Daddy will be back. I am going to take care of you, just like Uncle Drake takes care of Mommy. Shhh honey, you don't need to cry,"Jaks whispered. -- Brei Betzold
Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump! -- W. C. Fields
They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps. -- J. C. Watts
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
No parents. You have Uncle Jesse, forever in overalls. Then there's Bo and Duke. What do they do? I never saw them working for food or gas money. You can only kill so many possum. -- Bill Engvall
It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam ? which, let me make it very clear, I have not done ? than it is to speak honestly about [working moms]. -- Tina Fey
Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.' -- Robert Blake
I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them. -- Dian Fossey
I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them -- Dian Fossey
Tavi looked wildly around the courtyard, and when his gaze flicked toward them, his face lit witha ferocious smile. "Uncle Bernard! Uncle Bernard!" he shouted, pointing at Doroga. "He followed me home! Can we keep him? -- Jim Butcher
And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it! -- Charles Dickens
There was still an hour or two of daylight - even though clouds admitted only a greyish light upon the world, and his Uncle Timothy's house was by nature friendly to gloom.("Out Of The Deep") -- Walter de La Mare
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.' -- Tony Kushner
For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke. And I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms. -- Jalen Rose
I don't have many actors in my family, but I do have a Great Uncle that is a film-maker in Philadelphia, and my great-great-grandparents were Flamenco dancers in the 30's in New York, they were Spanish dancers. -- Aubrey Plaza
[ Uncle Sam] is not sending 20 billion dollars to South America because he loves those people down here. He's sending it - sending it to them because he needs their friendship, he needs their allegion - their allegiance. -- Malcolm X
I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh. -- Melina Marchetta
I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.' -- Margaret Mitchell
You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out of your pocket to pay Uncle Sam because the tax is paid based on accretion. -- Scott Walker
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My dear children!" Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack. "Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye. "Nellie!" Amy said. "Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys. -- Rick Riordan
I wake up to write stuff down all night. Useful things like this: To more efficiently make love nocturnally, I must combine the best characteristics of bats, bears, and my Uncle Norman who disappeared in the mountains in '94. -- Jarod Kintz
Harriet Beecher Stowe thought Uncle Tom's Cabin was written through her by Another Hand, so little did she know what was going to happen from moment to moment in the book. She herself was amazed at what she was writing. -- Sophy Burnham
Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion. -- Todd Tiahrt
Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed. -- Hortense Calisher
Only Uncle Pascha ignored her. He was contemplating his chessboard. She doubted that he'd move his piece today. It had been his turn for only six months. Once, he had gone three years between moves. He preferred a leisurely game. -- Sarah Beth Durst
The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic. -- Dominic Chianese
I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world -- I could have done anything, but I came back." "You ran away, Katarina." "And now I'm back." "You're still running. -- Ally Carter
My current novel, Pallas , is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction. -- L. Neil Smith
If you're familiar with my man Uncle Sam, you understand the only way you can actually feel better about what he's gonna take, come the end of the year, is lifestyle. Only thing you can do is spend some of it. -- Curtis Jackson
I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me. -- Laurence Sterne
Where have you been?" I stepped into my apartment and met Uncle Bob's glare with one of my own. "Out trying to pass myself off as a movie producer to get hot guys to sleep with me. Where have you been? -- Darynda Jones
We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil. -- Gerald R. Ford
I was headed in the wrong direction. I didn't think I'd make it to 21. My Uncle Chuck saved my life. He was a graphic designer, and he gave me my first sketchbook. In the front, he wrote, 'Wear it like your underwear.' -- Richard MacDonald
'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence can be subsequently traced down the decades in everything from Maurice Sendak to Lemony Snicket to J. K. Rowling. -- Paul Di Filippo
James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence can be subsequently traced down the decades in everything from Maurice Sendak to Lemony Snicket to J. K. Rowling. -- Paul Di Filippo
The term Big Brother is from George Orwell's book 1984 - where everyone's watched over by a network of cameras called Big Brother. I've never understood why Orwell chose that phrase for somebody watching you all the time. Isn't that more like Creepy Uncle? -- Craig Ferguson
The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam. -- Jim Cooper
He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter... -- Sara Gruen
...Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(:)...The coal companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war (to end all wars, WWI). ...The leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of saddles for the calvary. But there wasn't any calvary overseas! -- Smedley Butler
I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME! -- J. K. Rowling
Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room. -- Anna Garlin Spencer

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