Death Of My Uncle Quotes

#1. Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow.

Bernard Membe

#2. If you can't trust anyone, then you can trust no one.

Rick Yancey

#3. One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30 years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally immensing herself in the problems of the students. That gave her $50. The rest of the money came from the death of a rich uncle.

Milton Berle

#4. The nuts and bolts of shooting a film and writing a film are still really difficult. But what makes it easier is the fact that you know you're going to go to work with your best mate.

Simon Pegg

#5. For the rest of the morning they worked quietly ad steadily, realizing that their contentment here at Uncle Monty's house did not erase their parents' death, not at all, but at least it made them feel better after feeling so sad, for so long.

Lemony Snicket

#6. One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Like all that you are is the wanting, and the rest of you just burns away?

Megan Abbott

#8. Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.

Shankar Lamichhane

#9. As he journeyed alone toward the monster that is death, we could do nothing to help him, nor the others still alive; all the words of strength on our lips melted away, our love not great enough to bind them to life, and our hope not enough to will them to live.

Alfred Nestor

#10. He loves his Uncle Bi," Kelsey said ...
Brian gave Ian a death look. "If you tell Ghost he calls me Bi, I swear to Christ I will fire you.

Cherrie Lynn

#11. No sense of satisfaction, but my uncle's death had taught me that revenge is far less sweet than it promises to be. An empty meal, however long you take over it.

Mark Lawrence

#12. Life!' Vito exploded, making me jump. Up and down, good and bad, birth and death, celebration and devastation. If you got any balls at all, you roll with the punches and get the fuck on with it, pardon my French

Kristen Ashley

#13. President Kennedy's assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It's like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.

Kathryn Stockett

#14. We're the battling bastards of Bataan. No mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam. No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces. No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces. And nobody gives a damn.

Kenneth Edward Lim

#15. There is no question that, if John F. Kennedy Jr. had lived, he would have
been a formidable political candidate. But his premature death prevented us
from ever knowing if he indeed would have publicly confronted the deaths
of his father and uncle, and other related issues.

Donald Jeffries

#16. He was past the jitters about her age, her uncle. He was moving on this. And when it was over, he was going to be shot, he was pretty sure. But he was into her; she had him. He hoped his death would be quick and painless.

Robyn Carr

#17. It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.

Alice Hegan Rice

#18. Don' keep ya guard up when nobody ain't sparrin' with ya.

John Steinbeck

#19. Thinking remembering how his uncle had said that all man had was time, all that stood between him and the death he feared and abhorred was time yet he spent half of it inventing ways of getting the other half past:

William Faulkner

#20. To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Jeanne Moreau

#21. The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

Misha Glenny

#22. I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Godfrey Reggio

#23. What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

Bruce Lee

#24. My uncle Jimmy took liver salts twice a day for 40 years. He died on Sunday, was buried Wednesday and the following Friday they had to go to the cemetery to beat his liver to death with a stick.

Frank Carson

#25. Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.

Todd Tiahrt

#26. Fate, the monstrous scene-shifter, was setting the stage for the death of Uncle Fred, the elderly man.

George Bellairs

#27. Remember, Pia," he whispers. "Perfect is as perfect does.

Jessica Khoury

#28. I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.

Hope Solo

#29. Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that.

Shannon Miller

#30. I seem at once cursed to say precisely what I'm thinking to him and unable to tell what he thinks about it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#31. I always love messing with my own hair as much as I can; I don't normally like to wear wigs.

Jon Heder

#32. But to dwell prematurely on the sadness of one's death to others, Uncle Kostia, is like asking for money in advance. It's commercially unsound.

William Gerhardie

#33. I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

Melina Marchetta

#34. My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.

Renata Adler

#35. I had a very crazy aunt and uncle who we traded my brother Webster to for a Siamese cat. It was heaven to live with my aunt and uncle because you got spoiled to death.

Rex Smith

#36. Of course it was Hamlet - The uncle kills the father, and the son has to avenge his father's death. So then we decided it was going to be Hamlet with lions." In that pivotal moment, the film got the green light.

Adam M. Grant