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Uncle Quotes

My dad's from Barbados, but I lived with my mum. She brought me up; my uncle took me to the football. I grew up in a white family, I'd say.

Family Football Me Uncle White Say

I have an uncle in Jamaica who's an OG producer/songwriter over there, Mikey Bennett.

Uncle Over Jamaica Bennett

I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather's shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens.

Men Me Uncle Grandfather Shaving

My uncle was a second father to me. I spent most of my childhood with him.

Father Childhood Me Uncle Him Most

Growing up in wrestling, I would see my uncle put on his mask before he walked into auditoriums. The kids would run up to him and ask for autographs and pictures, and seeing him lacing up his boots in the locker room and putting on his mask before heading to the ring, that was all so real to me. That was the modern day superhero to me.

Day Me Growing Up Mask Boots Uncle

I love my brothers' kids. It's funny - as an uncle, you become so protective of them.

Funny Love You Uncle Become Kids

In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.

Khaled Hosseini

Son Yourself Brother You Uncle

One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.

James Earl Jones

Day College Uncle Go Sitting First

My first memory of the national team is the 1982 World Cup. I remember those days at our home or at my uncle's house, with all the family and those long dinners watching the matches. But I also remember that, during the games, I went outside or onto the balcony to play.

Gianluigi Buffon

Family Home Memory Team World Uncle

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

Frederic William Farrar

Great Time Brother Name Uncle Late

I look at the progressive policies that have marginalized black dads. They push them to the side and say, 'You're not needed.' Uncle Sam is going to be the dad: he's going to provide for the kids; he's going to feed the kids.

David A. Clarke, Jr.

Black Push You Look Uncle Say

I've always been a fan of George C. Scott, who was working in movies when I was in college... films like 'Patton' and 'Hospital.' I was really impressed by him, and I had seen him onstage as well in 'Uncle Vanya.' He was a champ to me.

College Me Uncle Movies Hospital

Sunken-place entrants include Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, Tiger Woods, O.J. Simpson, sometimes Kanye West, and any black person with something nice to say about President Trump. It's more generous than 'sellout' and less punitive than 'Uncle Tom,' a dis and a road to redemption.

Road Woods Black Tiger Uncle Person

If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.

Change Mother Progress Uncle Urgency

I'll say my dad couldn't act to save his life and nor can my uncle, and they'll say I'm the worst actor in the world.

Life World Uncle Say Actor Worst

If you're a black conservative and you criticize the black community, you're an Uncle Tom. If you're a white conservative and you criticize the black community, you're somehow a racist.

Community Black You Uncle White Tom

I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.

Slavery You Pen Uncle Want Cabin

My father was a veteran. He fought in World War II. He was a patriot. On the other hand, he had no illusions whatsoever about how Uncle Sam had mistreated him and other black soldiers.

John Edgar Wideman

Father War World Black Uncle Hand

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

Organization Uncle Page Grandmother

I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did.

Family Saying Year Back Uncle Go

There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

School People Me Uncle Play Ask

My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera.

Stars Great Sister Uncle Cocktail

Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.

Pastor Maldonado

Father Uncle Passionate Very About

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

Life Friend Guitar Uncle Canada Him

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