Quotes of: Uncle Keyword

Professor Isak Borg: I like you, Marianne. Marianne Borg: I like you too, uncle Isak.

Wild Strawberries

I have a lot of respect for His Majesty Juan Carlos. I call him Uncle Juan because he is an extraordinary person whom I have known for a long time.

Mohammed VI of Morocco

I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.

Rafael Nadal

My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.

Saina Nehwal

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

Jane Smiley

[haggling with a fish vendor] Uncle Louis: Two DOLLARS? You didn't even need to catch the fish! It died of CANCER!

The Big Blue

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

Alveda King

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

Alveda King

Uncle Joe pulled the L.E.F. from his head and his side arm from his hip.... “We don’t have five minutes.

Footprints

The Marine Corps is your family too. You may not have a mother here, but you have a shit pile of fathers, uncles, and brothers.

Hurricane Ginger

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)

Bossypants

Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses.

Raventide

He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle – that should be his tone.

Oryx and Crake

The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs.

A Luminous Future

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Say Uncle

Aygi Cycle (4) Coarse hawthorn beloved uncle's memory entwined among its gnarled and armored limbs copy of Lolita by his deathbed

Thread

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man? What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well." -Uncle Charles

Uncommon Criminals