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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
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
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
My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama. -- Fred Allen
My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago. -- George Gobel
My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair. -- Rodney Dangerfield
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? -- Margaret Smith
The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script. -- Max von Sydow
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. -- Edward G. Robinson
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things. -- G. Gordon Liddy
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
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
It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high. -- Steven Seagal
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
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now. -- Ronnie Wood
There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar. -- Frederic William Farrar
Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film. -- Mel Torme
I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person. -- Catherine Bell
Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind. -- Rafael Palmeiro
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
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
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
You deliver 2,000 babies or better - 3,000 by that time. And that's, you know, at minimum, three people each. And then if you take grandparents or grandparents of siblings and aunts and uncles, you know, you get - a 100,000 votes outta that -- Tom Coburn
My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship. -- Joseph C. Lincoln
I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven. -- Doris Day
I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them. -- Dolly Parton
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
Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. -- Bryan Clay
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
My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat. -- Bruno Mars
I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that. -- Christopher Walken
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
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
As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside. -- David Suzuki
My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way. -- Saina Nehwal
I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way. -- Alanis Morissette
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 childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever. -- Action Bronson
We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world. -- Rob Bell
Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly prove that we weren't all bad! -- Mariella Frostrup
I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory. -- Christopher Walken
When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song. -- Ricky Martin
In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. -- Padma Lakshmi
Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile! -- Aasif Mandvi
I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer. -- Hamilton Jordan
My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of guilt to which I was not subjected in my childhood. Members of my immediate family live all over the world - a diaspora of cousins, aunts, uncles and more in a dizzying mix. -- Sara Sheridan
The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts. They were quite the characters, and we tied them to about 50 recipes. It's like a memoir-cookbook. -- Tony Danza
Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up. -- Billy Williams
I've been truly protected by my uncles. -- will.i.am
My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house. -- Lil Romeo
My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house. -- Lil Romeo
My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors. -- Morena Baccarin
After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism. -- Hyder Akbar
The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. -- Henry David Thoreau
Churches were shut down and Stanislaw's father and three uncles had been sent to prison camps for speaking out." -- Fannie Flagg
My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea. -- Darrell Issa
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like. -- James Patterson
My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables. -- John Boehner
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
Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply. -- Susanna Clarke
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now. -- Ronnie Wood
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
I'm a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch. -- Bo Burnham
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
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
The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul. -- Walter Lippmann
I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon. -- Christopher Titus
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
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
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
I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies. -- Grant Show
My uncles were all funny. My dad wasn't funny, but my uncles were all funny. Now I go back and I like him better than them, they were manipulative funny. -- Louis C. K.
When I was a boy, one of my uncles had a cabin on a lake in Wisconsin. My family went there for parts of three summers, and I loved it! -- Kevin Henkes
My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely. -- Barry Hannah
I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people. -- Dichen Lachman
Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks. -- Tamora Pierce
I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts and uncles), living as boldly as they want to be. -- Michael Hyatt
Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best. -- Garrison Keillor
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles. -- George Bernard Shaw
During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba. -- Amin Maalouf
Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle. -- T. Berry Brazelton
I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that. -- Anita Brookner

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