Quotes About Uncle And Nephew

#1. It was only then that I realized the distance between uncle and nephew wasn't nearly as great as I'd assumed.

Geraldine Brooks

#2. How do you choose your books?' my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don't always choose the books, I'll say. Sometimes the books choose me.

Sara Nelson

#3. What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#4. Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

Norman Mailer

#5. What is good for you is not necessarily good for the company, and vice versa.

Sandra Lerner

#6. The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.

E. O. Wilson

#7. Well, you really made a mess of things,' he says. 'I'm not even done,' I tell him.

Suzanne Collins

#8. A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!" cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. "Bah!" said Scrooge, "Humbug!

Charles Dickens

#9. A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

Alanis Morissette

#10. If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#11. Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate.

Stephanie McMahon

#12. Afghans excel at fighting Afghans. This is what Afghans do, even when they are not being invaded by foreign powers. They fight each other, tribe against tribe, brother against brother, half-brother against half-brother, cousin against cousin, uncle against nephew, father against son.

Phyllis Chesler

#13. Uncle Vito is going to make his own nephew swim with the fishes?

Kristen Ashley

#14. As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

Amanda Peet

#15. Alexis was now accustomed to his uncle's fatal disease as we are to all things that last around us; and because he had once made his nephew cry as the dead make us cry, the boy, even though his uncle was still alive, treated him like a dead man: he had begun to forget him.

Marcel Proust

#16. Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where people were trying to outdo each other to be noticed even

J. Robbins

#17. You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.

Ashley Wagner

#18. 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

#19. The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#20. Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?"
"I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

Charles Dickens

#21. I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take on a new team. You should stick with the team of your youth all the way to your grave. That shows a sense of loyalty and devotion.

Frank Deford

#22. Last night, while I lay thinking here, some Whatifs crawled inside my ear, and pranced and partied all night long, and sang their same old Whatif song." - Shel Silverstein

Nicole Archer