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Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."
I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.
I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.
My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.
The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.
I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.
All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say 'Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!'
Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.
If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.
If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.
I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.
I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?'
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.
I studied physical therapy, and I started to study theater because my aunt is a theater director.
Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.
An Aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.
Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.
I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
My paternal uncle and aunt have jobs, and they are the ones who feed the family with a regular income.
My mom, my aunt, and my grandma banded together and gave me a village of support when I was growing up.
When I was born, I was given to my uncle and aunt to raise as their kid because they couldn't have kids.
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.
Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.
You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.
I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.
The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.
My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!
My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers.
My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
Sign language was a great experience. I have a deaf aunt that I am able to communicate with because of that class.
We've had several cats. I had a cat when I was a kid. My Aunt had lots of cats and I got lots of calls about cats.