Aunt Quotes

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.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one.

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

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.

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.

They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny.That made me the coolest aunt on earth.

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

My aunt and uncle are clearly civilians.

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.