Uncle Quotes

• With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure that had a huge influence on me. However, my father had more influence on me just by the way he lived, because the way he was at the racetrack was the way he was in everyday life.

  

  Jacques Villeneuve
  • Life
  • Father
  • Everyday

• Being a son, brother, uncle and brother-in-law is all I care about.

  

  Chris Burke
  • Law
  • Son
  • Brother

• My mom used to be concerned 'cause I would never go outside. And when I'd go outside, I'd have friends, but I just was always in the house listening to music, practicing DJing all the time. Then my uncle got a keyboard, drum machine, so I'd just be in the house at 12, 13, just, like, messing up his presets. And my mom was like, 'My son is strange.'

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Even to this day, when I think about the fact that I'm in this 'Star Wars' world, that I'm a half-brother to Darth Vader and an uncle to Luke Skywalker, it's too hard to wrap my head around.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • World
  • Star
  • Brother

• An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Uncle

• We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.' You will, will you?' Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Littles
  • Aunt
  • Uncles

• The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Organization
  • Grandmother
  • Gods

• My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately - I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I'm seeing this. I'm supposed to stop this. And I couldn't.

  

  John Edward
  • Stop
  • Uncle

• Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.

  

  Peter Coyote
  • People
  • Model
  • Uncle

• My favorite lie was the online rumor that Bruce Willis was my uncle. That's hilarious.

  

  Natassia Gail Zolot
  • Uncle
  • Hilarious

• I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

  

  Little Richard
  • Long
  • Aunt
  • Alley

• I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff?

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Why
  • She
  • Fun

• No family is complete without an embarrassing uncle.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Family
  • Uncle

• Matthew Leiah Keller sat beneath a watershed tree and brooded. Other children played all around him, but they ignored Matt. So did two teachers on monitor duty. People usually ignored Matt when he wanted to be alone. Uncle Matt was gone. Gone to a fate so horrible that the adults wouldn't even talk about it.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Children
  • Alone

• My prayers are with my uncle. I pray that he will seek and receive the help he so desperately needs.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Help
  • Uncle
  • Prayers

• 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!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Magic
  • Fool
  • Pink

• I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, 'This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.' The banana in Congo is called 'Dikembe.' So my uncle start calling me, 'Dikembe, Dikembe, look at you Dikembe, you cannot even stand up.' It took a long time for me to walk.

  

  Dikembe Mutombo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God.

  

  Ronnie Milsap
  • God
  • She
  • Remember

• I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

  

  Archy Ivan Marshall
  • Good
  • Uncle

• Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.

  

  Lydia Ko
  • People
  • She
  • Parents

• I lost a great uncle in World War II who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• 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.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Heart
  • Grandparents
  • Aunt

• Our brothers, cousins, uncles, husbands, neighbors were in the war, ... Not everyone's cousin or uncle is in this war.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • War
  • Cousin
  • Brothers

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