Great Aunts Quotes

#1. All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#2. Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.

David Nicholls

#3. My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

Laura Linney

#4. The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.

Marcel Proust

#5. I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?

William Butler Yeats

#6. When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

Shel Silverstein

#7. Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

Bryant McGill

#8. I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men.

Dolly Parton

#9. You will walk a long road," said Morozko. "If you have not the courage to meet it, better - far better - for you to die quiet in the snow. Perhaps I meant you a kindness.

Katherine Arden

#10. I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

Primo Levi

#11. But you kissed her. I saw you."
"No, you saw her kiss me. You saw me not cause a scene in the middle of the club."
"Well, you didn't look like you hated it."
"But I did. The whole time, all I could think about was kissing you instead." He starts to bend his head toward mine.

M. Leighton

#12. The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?

Terry Pratchett

#13. It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

Mary Cheney

#14. Leave the fireworks for those who cast no spark of their own.

Karen Abbott

#15. Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.

Paulo Coelho

#16. This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, or even my aunts. Masculine self-centeredness made him restful to be with.

Alice Munro

#17. For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles.

Charles C. Krulak

#18. I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones.

Joanne Froggatt

#19. It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.

Daisy Berkowitz

#20. Love must be the first thought and the last thought of the day, if you wish to live in peace and happiness.

Leon Brown

#21. Your beliefs determine your thoughts, behaviours, and actions; they in turn determine your outcomes.

Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

#22. I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!

Walter Raleigh