Good Uncle Quotes

#1. war. But I had a good uncle named Alex, who said, when life was most agreeable - and it could be just a pitcher of lemonade in the shade - he would say, "If this isn't nice, what is?

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#2. My main nurturing instinct toward children is mild sadism
picking them up and threatening to drop them
which is why I am a good uncle but would make a poor father.

Thomm Quackenbush

#3. My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else. And it never occurred to them to tell me that I could just rest comfortably and wait for good old Uncle Sugar to feed me, lead me and then bleed me.

Mike Huckabee

#4. My attention was riveted to Keirran.
He shot me a pained, embarrassed wince. "Yeah. I was going to tell you ... sooner or later. There just wasn't a good time." He paused, his voice going very soft. "I'm sorry ... Uncle.

Julie Kagawa

#5. Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area, and when I was growing up, I assisted my uncle, who was a poacher. That was good, because it grew my passion for protecting the forest and plants.

Corneille Ewango

#6. My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was happy and was going to pat me on the head and say I was good. But he took me home and told my grandmother this youngin' was at school singing the blues.

Mavis Staples

#7. My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.

Moby

#8. If 10 percent is good enough for the Lord, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.

Paul Broun

#9. Good God, girl!" shouted her uncle. "It was an army of individuals! They walked off their farms and walked to the War!

Harper Lee

#10. I'm very proud to say that Buddy MacMaster is my uncle. He gives credibility to what I do and I'm glad I can carry that MacMaster name because he has created such a good name.

Natalie MacMaster

#11. My uncle told a great story with his life, but I think there was such a sadness at his funeral because his story wasn't finished. If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. But my uncle died too soon.

Donald Miller

#12. Not that Dr Watson wasn't benign - he was one of the best souls in the Empire - but a man didn't get to be her uncle's right-hand man without a good uppercut and the stamina of a draft horse.

Emma Jane Holloway

#13. I come from a long line of serial embellishers. Sometimes a good story's got a ghost in it; sometimes a panther chases my Uncle Bill and Fred Price home from a coon hunt.

Tony Earley

#14. My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

Gene Hackman

#15. I realized I was humming "Uncle John's Band" to myself for no good reason.

Gillian Flynn

#16. Well," she said carefully. "Someday I'd like to get married and have a family, but
"
"She does," Tasha informed her uncle. "She's pretty and she makes good sandwiches. You should ask
her to marry you.

Suzanne Brockmann

#17. I have a mother,"replied Hamlet gloomily as he bowed politely and kissed my mother's hand."She shares my uncle's bed."
"They should buy another one, in that case," she replied, practical as ever. "They do a very good deal at IKEA, I'm told ...

Jasper Fforde

#18. Finished. If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. But my uncle died too soon. The next day, when I was walking with

Donald Miller

#19. 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

#20. If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.

Ray Stevens

#21. Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.

Ray Bradbury

#22. But we are the good guys. Aren't we, Uncle?"
"I hope so. I hope we are.

Anthony Doerr

#23. The drive was brief and the conversation limited, but oh, what a legacy of love! Father never read to me from the Bible about the good Samaritan. Rather, he took me with him and Uncle Elias in that old 1928 Oldsmobile and provided a living lesson I have always remembered.

Thomas S. Monson

#24. I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

King Krule

#25. Sir Henry fixed him with a keen eye.
'Odd name, Tom Skatt - eh?'
'Thats right'
'You don't think we could be related?'
Tom looked up at his great-great-great-uncle and smiled.
'I don't think so'
'No,' grinned Sir Henry no, of course not

Henry Chancellor

#26. She did her best but like Uncle E says, sometimes your best just ain't good enough.

Patricia Wood

#27. It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

David Hockney

#28. Well, I'm an uncle now ... don't know if I'm a good one. My nephew asked me the difference between a hamster and a gerbil and I told him I thought there was more dark meat on a gerbil.

Bobcat Goldthwait

#29. I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Nate Ruess

#30. Actually," he said, "you're not far off. Uncle Leo brought some toys for all you good little demigods.

Rick Riordan

#31. I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#32. 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

#33. My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.

Nandan Nilekani

#34. My dear children!"
Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack.
"Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye.
"Nellie!" Amy said.
"Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys.

Rick Riordan

#35. A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

Lorne Michaels

#36. Hello, Satan. I know you've been waiting patiently for me since the demise of the good and noble Uncle Tor. I have a feeling I'll be staying here a while.

Carian Cole

#37. It's good to see you, little one." He (Uncle Eddie) scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you.

Ally Carter

#38. Shai's Uncle Won had taught her that being bested was a rule of life. No matter how good you were, someone was better. Live by that knowledge, and you would never grow so confident that you became sloppy. Last

Brandon Sanderson

#39. Where is the good of planning upon an "if?" To trust is to get ready, uncle says. Trust is better than foresight.

George MacDonald

#40. Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

Chuck Palahniuk