Aunt Quotes

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness. (Jack Kerouac)
There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is - not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary. View quote
Margaret Atwood
It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia, lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle ('Please read this carefully and send it on Jane') the clan has a tendency to ignore me. It's one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor - and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Swearing relieves the feelings-that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
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. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye. View quote
Douglas Adams
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children. (Kate DiCamillo)
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. View quote
Gillian Anderson
But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before. View quote
Mark Twain
Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie. View quote
Meg Cabot
I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel. View quote
Andy Cohen
One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda. View quote
Eva Ibbotson
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances. View quote
Alice Hoffman
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago. View quote
Ziggy Marley
We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look! (Lulu)
I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt. View quote
Ann B. Davis
Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle. View quote
Alvah Bessie
I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world. View quote
Bailee Madison
My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it. View quote
Dick Dale