Uncles Quotes - Page 18

• I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.

  Clarence Thomas

  Years, Complaining, Complaints

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• It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.

  John Lennon

  Causes, Ems, Half

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• I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.

  Laurence Sterne

  Hurt, Animal, Hands

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• A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

  Tony Kushner

  Drama, Heart, Impact

  "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

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• Una profesora se jubiló hace poco con medio millón de dólares después de 30 años de trabajar duro, preocuparse, dedicarse y sumergirse totalmente en los problemas de los alumnos. Eso le dio 50 dólares. El resto del dinero procedía de la muerte de un tío rico.

  Milton Berle

  Educación, Profesor, Enseñanza

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• El Tío Tom de hoy no lleva un pañuelo en la cabeza. El Tío Tom moderno del siglo XX suele llevar sombrero de copa. Suele ir bien vestido y ser culto. Suele ser la personificación de la cultura y el refinamiento. El Tío Thomas del siglo XX a veces habla con acento de Yale o Harvard. A veces se le conoce como Profesor, Doctor, Juez y Reverendo, incluso Reverendo Doctor. El Tío Thomas del siglo XX es un negro profesional, es decir, su profesión es ser un negro para el hombre blanco.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Men, White

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• Durante mi juventud, la idea de irme del Líbano era impensable. Luego empecé a darme cuenta de que quizá tuviera que irme, como mi abuelo, mis tíos y otros que se fueron a América, Egipto, Australia, Cuba.

  Amin Maalouf

  Moving, Egypt, Ideas

  "A son of the road" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

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• Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.

  Tom Stoppard

  Kings, Father, Son

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.

  Bruno Mars

  Mother, Player, Guitar

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• My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.

  Chuck Nevitt

  Funny, Sports, Baby

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• I climbed into Misery and called Uncle Bob. “We hooking up?” “Why does everything out of your mouth make me sound incestuous?” “Um, I wasn’t aware that it did. Perhaps you have a guilty conscience.” “Charley.” “Is there something you need to get off your chest? Besides that skank I saw you with the other day?

  Darynda Jones

  Skanks, Mouths, Bob

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.100, Macmillan

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• Does Uncle Bob have anything?" "I heard he has an STD." "I mean on the women." "Oh, I have no idea if they have any STDs.

  Darynda Jones

  Mean, Ideas, Doe

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.159, Macmillan

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• Sleep every chance you get. Eat every chance you get. Those were two of the many lessons that Kat learned at her father’s knee and her uncle’s table.

  Ally Carter

  Padre, Dormir, Dos

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• Wait. Far be it for me to say this" — Hamish looked around the compartment — "and if anyone tells Uncle Eddie I suggested being an upstanding citizen I'll kill 'em, but aren't there...laws and stuff? I mean, can't you...you know...sue him or something?" asked the boy who had once stolen an entire circus, all three rings.

  Ally Carter

  Mean, Boys, Law

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• Of course I want dubs and a candy painted 'lac
  Watch the videos and get the girls in the back
  But if that's what I believe in, and the reason that
  I rap Uncle Sam is my pimp when he puts me on the track

  Macklemore

  Girl, Believe, Rap

  Song: Make The Money

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• Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mother, Dog, Brother

  "The world according to Kurt". Interview with Simon Houpt, Globe and Mail (Toronto), October 11, 2005.

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• That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian... um, Christ, I lost it. I was going for something thick. So what's with the beard, Grizzly Fouts?

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Kids, Exhibitions

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• 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.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Cousin, Aunt, Cities

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• Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost his belief in the existence of God said: "The whole horrible structure, based not on the love of God, but on the fear of hell, tumbled down like a house of cards."

  Selina Hastings, Condesa de Huntingdon

  School, House Of Cards, Years

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• Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie

  Ally Carter

  Wise, Strong, Heart

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• The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.

  E. O. Wilson

  Father, Son, Nephew

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• The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.

  Arthur Hopcraft

  Sports, Football, Children

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• If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Writing, Being Thankful, Cabins

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• Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Naughty

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1960, Oxford University Press

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• That defining moment at my friend's house, when his uncle looks in my eye and reads me the word of God, I have an awakening.

  Paula White

  Eye, House, Looks

  Fuente: culteducation.com

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