Quotes For My Aunties

#1. I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

James McAvoy

#2. My future is always plural. It is always about my mother and my father and my aunties and my sister.

Daisy Hernandez

#3. I saw my aunties and my mum give up a part of themselves and their dreams to have kids. There were things they wanted to achieve in life, but they had kids instead.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

#4. The aunties can make Game of Thrones look like Dora the Explorer, but that's not the point.

Tanya Huff

#5. My daughters all have aunties who help out. It takes a village.

Jodie Sweetin

#6. I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.

Zayn Malik

#7. You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.

Helen Reddy

#8. I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.

Barbara Mandrell

#9. Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

Donna Tartt

#10. I didn't have enough other people in my life to cover the loss of this many people at once. I didn't have spare aunties or cousins or grandparents. I didn't have backup. I didn't have insurance to cover a loss like this.

Liane Moriarty

#11. This communal parenting brought me out of the privacy of our foreign enclave and into the public life of the community. Here, parenting was everyone's responsibility; all adults were "aunties" and "uncles".

Aminta Arrington

#12. My bodysuit is how I start everyday. I wear a bodysuit everyday of my life. It's how I start my yoga practice. It's underneath it all. For me, what goes under the clothes is as important as what goes on top of the clothes. It's a layering aspect, so it's inside.

Donna Karan

#13. Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.

Gregory Maguire

#14. I whispered, "Can we kick the aunties out right now?"
I saw the flash of his smug smile before he buried his face in my neck and muttered, "You're adorable."
I wasn't trying to be adorable. I was trying to get laid.
"No, seriously.

Kristen Ashley

#15. I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.

Alanis Morissette

#16. But aunties are equivocal figures of affection, wicked and unreliable, pretending love only so long as they are short of love themselves, and then off.

Howard Jacobson

#17. Zane was pretty sure that worries and bossing were related, like a pair of old aunties.

C.J. Milbrandt

#18. Sweetheart,' 'darling,' 'luv.' I like these words; they fit me like a comfortable old pullover. I remember them from childhood; that's what innocent little boys were called by cheerful aunties back then, to make them feel welcome and secure in the world.

Michael Leunig

#19. We all sang the songs of peace

Melanie

#20. But she went and fetched some marigolds from her own little garden, and put them in a vase on the chest of drawers, for she knew there was lots of room for love, even if there was not much for great-aunties.

Joyce Lankester Brisley

#21. I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#22. A person who does not know himself... can not commit to another person. Without being genuine to yourself you are unable to be genuine to anyone else.

Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

#23. Everyone goes out of life just as if he had but lately entered.

Seneca.