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Uncle Quotes

The relative who shows up when it counts.

A childhood memory of an uncle teaching Latin with only a breviary, no proper textbook in sight, sits next to a grown adult describing an uncle-like mentoring role for a friend's son. Family bonds like these run through our Family collection.

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My favorite uncle died when I was eleven, and that was two months after 9/11, so that was a particularly difficult time with my family.

Quotes by Adam Silvera

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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a...

Quotes by Adam Mansbach

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On 'Adam Ruins Everything' we do the broadest sketch comedy possible. We do stuff where you can see it immediately and know it's a joke - characters in big silly costumes; here's Uncle Sam and he's twiddling his fingers saying,...

Quotes by Adam Conover

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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.

Quotes by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Always Quotes

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If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn't suffer fools gladly.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

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When I was six and already able to read and write Polish, my uncle the curate taught me Latin. Since he had no suitable textbook, he simply used the breviary.

Quotes by Wladyslaw Reymont

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Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.

Quotes by Willard Scott

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Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry.

Quotes by Will Shetterly

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I’m Uncle Viv to Ian Botham’s son, Liam, and I’ve been a sort of mentor to him over the years. I’ve always been there for him and whenever there was an opportunity to see him play sport, I was there.

Quotes by Viv Richards

Dad Quotes

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You know, my uncle wore a lot of jewelry, a lot of gold chains.

Quotes by Two Chainz

A couple of entries also nod to how the word 'uncle' has taken on a life of its own in public and fictional culture. For more, see our Dad and Father pages.