Uncles Quotes

My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants.

Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
- Play
- Used
- Pants
My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.

J. B. Pritzker
- Way
- Say
- Uncles

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

Edward G. Robinson
- Trying
- Friends
- Father
My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert master, he took me to a lot of rehearsals, concerts, performances, opera, ballet. For me, that was life.

Lalo Schifrin
- Life
- Mother
- Father
I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.

Benoit Mandelbrot
- Different
- Want
- Matter
I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

Doris Day
- Family
- Heaven
- Wonderful
Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let them meet or play with them. You just showed them pictures of them, and told them to memorize their names. Each day you'd have them recite the names, over and over again. You'd say, "OK, this is a picture of your great-aunt Beatrice. Her husband was your great-uncle Earnie. They had three children, your uncles Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo. Harpo married your aunt Leonie ... yadda, yadda, yadda.

Brian X. Foley
Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.

William Shakespeare
- Grace
- Uncles