Quotes about Aunts

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts Votes: 3

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry ... Votes: 3

Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies. Votes: 3

Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies." Votes: 3

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. Votes: 1

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven. Votes: 1

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like. Votes: 1

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love. Votes: 1

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street. Votes: 1

I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

When I give my jewelry as a present, I feel like I'm giving protection to someone I care about... I've given pieces to my mom, my aunts, my friends. I've even made bracelets for my dad and my uncle. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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! Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in my earliest memories, in our Wiltshire country kitchen, of gran, and aunts, cooking spicy stewy, casseroley curries, a version of Indian food with a Burmese twist. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine. Votes: 1

My aunts still try to fatten me up. Votes: 0

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners. Votes: 0

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators. Votes: 0

Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp. Votes: 0

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic. Votes: 0

God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts. Votes: 0

Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts. Votes: 0

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen. Votes: 0

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers. Votes: 0

All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say 'Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!' Votes: 0

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us. Votes: 0

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. Votes: 0

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. Votes: 0

There was a group of six women in my household. My mom, aunts and grandma. I watched them in the kitchen. Votes: 0

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer. Votes: 0

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. Votes: 0

My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house. Votes: 0

My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry. Votes: 0

I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their whole system is destroyed. Votes: 0

You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons. I called them: cousins, aunts, pops, moms. To you? Hoodlums, crackheads, gunmens. To me? Just neighbors, classmates, young friends. Votes: 0

All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof. Votes: 0

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six. Votes: 0

I knew nothing about my mum's family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brought up by two aunts, and she only ever met one uncle. Votes: 0

I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties. Votes: 0

My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family. Votes: 0

I love being around my family. I am very close to my mum, my brother, my grandmother, my aunts - we constantly poke fun at each other, but it's all done out of love. Votes: 0

My family is very creative. My grandfather played the guitar in Cuba. My sisters, my mom and two aunts would do harmonies, so I would see them and think, 'I want the attention.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Saw him where?" "While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts." This seemed to satisfy Ronan was well, because he asked, "What's the other half of her?" "God, Ronan," Adam said. "Enough. Votes: 0