Uncle Quotes

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
Rodney Dangerfield

Wish, Wanted, Dying

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

God, Men, Wisdom

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
Margaret Smith

Angry, Looking, Tombstone

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

Life, Friend, Him

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.
Ted Nugent

Dad, Smart, Done

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
R. Lee Ermey

God, Best, Conviction

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

Good, God, Husband

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
Brian Eno

Lie, Done, Thought

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
Black Elk

Life, Sick, Dead

My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
Fred Allen

Southern, Alabama, Undertaker

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Dad, Both, Almost

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.
George H. W. Bush

Job, Wanted, Street

My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'
Lena Dunham

Cool, Bad, Thinking

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.
Emeril Lagasse

Time, Dad, Young

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Child, She, Used

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
Robert Duvall

Wisdom, Two, Young

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.
Robert Duvall

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

History, Heart, Two

I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'
Larry Hagman

Success, Family, Father

I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.
David Walliams

Dad, Thought, She

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.
Andy Cohen

Love, Live, Sexy

Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!
Sherri Shepherd

Black, Thought, Talk

I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
Nathan Fillion

Money, School, Big

My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls.
Greg Kinnear

Dad, Two, Three

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.
Steven Seagal

Work, Pet, Mother

If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due.
Alveda King

Today, Giving, Here

My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president.
Alveda King

Someone, President, Office

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
P. G. Wodehouse

Food, Medical, Thought

One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.
James Earl Jones

College, Brilliant, Front

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.
James Earl Jones

Family, College, Youngest

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