Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
G. K. Chesterton
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My uncle is being helpful, like: All you have to do is blow out this wall and extend the bathroom. If you're going to borrow $100,000, why not spend $100,000 more and be done with it, with no hassle?
Michele Morson
I tell people they don't know who they lost. They lost a great man. (The street naming) would be a great honor, not just for my uncle but for everyone. For blacks, and for whites too.
Richard Palmer
Dodi Fayed's uncle, on his mother's side, is a well-known arms dealer, ... I'm sure they're extremely nice people, but it does cast a slight shadow over things.
Sarah Bradford
My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.
George Gobel
I know what it means to the people down there, because I have an uncle and his wife who lived in New Orleans. I'm pretty sure all the players and coaches will chip in. They know what's going on.
Jeff Nelson
The building disintegrated, and a slab hit him. This has almost killed me, losing everything, and my uncle.
Marty Bryant
I would see these films starring Maria Felix, Lola Flores she was my very favorite. My uncle was the one that opened my eyes to glamour.
Holly Woodlawn
Luke : Listen, I can't get involved. I've got work to do. It's not that I like the Empire; I hate it. But there's nothing I can do about it right now... It's all such a long way from here. Obi-Wan : That's your uncle talking.
Mark Hamill
Well, I can't (sing or dance). Actually, I sing like a seal and dance like your Uncle Leo at that wedding where he got up and went 'ya, ya, ya'.
Richard Dreyfuss
I don't think he had any enemies. In fact, there is nobody who didn't know Uncle Jake and love Uncle Jake. He 's just a wonderful person. And this corner is not going to be the same. It's going to be very hard for me to drive through here and not see my uncle sitting on the porch or see him walking up the street here.
Jerry Young
Hands down. He's done more for college football than anybody around today. He's like your uncle at Thanksgiving that everybody likes.
Brian Ferentz
China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, for all of his billion constituents, seemed in the evening's lovely flow like a favorite uncle, smiling a little too much, wanting to be a bit American, talking about peace and pork chops.
Hugh Sidey
No mother can sleep at night knowing that her son was murdered in the fashion that my uncle was murdered in. My grandparents live with this every day, for the last nine years. And this has brought closure to my family.
Tangee Overly
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
G. Gordon Liddy
They were very close and they did a lot together. They liked to jitterbug. My uncle has a real zest for life and he's an example why they call his, the Greatest Generation.
Mark Lofthouse
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
Marcelene Cox
It's been totally patriotic. Anything from Uncle Sam to Betsy Ross to the Statue of Liberty has been real hot.
Gregg Kerns
He's a big guy, you know? ... I talked to him the last 18 holes, 'Come on, man, come on. Why you too slow?' 'Your bag too heavy, Uncle.' I said, 'You eat too much every night.' I'll never forget that one.
Carlos Franco
You don't mock the importance of the event. This isn't the MTV Music Video Awards. We expect the Oscar host to be like a beloved aunt or uncle on stage playing the ringmaster to a family reunion.
Tom O'neil
The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.
Chuck Barris
Luke: Uncle Owen, this R2 unit has a bad motivator.
Mark Hamill
Playing for my uncle is difficult sometimes, but when we leave practice, everything's over with. My dad gives me advice. I think I could play for him, too.
Jordan Zuppe
Our collection includes costumes dating back to the 1890s. We have an Uncle Sam suit that was typical of the day. People in that time wore patriotic costumes.
Murl Riedel
My uncle was there for the last day, and I'm here for the first. It's like we completed the cycle.
Marty Humphrey
At the Uncle Sam grave site, we received a generous donation from Robert Huff. We received a new flagpole which he gave to the cemetery in memory of his grandson.
Terry Page
Ossie's point of view was that if you pushed everybody to their limits and made the racists the worst racists in the world and made the Uncle Tom the worst Uncle Tom, that all of it would be so ridiculous that you could laugh it out of existence, ... But along with this humor, there are some very, very serious political points being made.
Sheldon Epps
He should be OK, ... He was in the Marines. My dad was in the Navy. My auntie and uncle, they were in the Air Force and Army. So, they're survivors.
Byron Sanders
I talked to my uncle in Florida on the phone and I told him I wanted to teach. He said to get into it slowly. So I got into it slowly. I read so many books, it's unreal.
Bill Mason
It's not safe for everybody, and unless you're experienced you should be going to the store and buy it, or buy it from the guy on the side of the road, or call my uncle on the Big Island and he go get 'em and I got to give him money for his time.
Renee Nunies
We are going to defeat you in the budget process and debate process until you cry uncle.
Mark Souder
It was a simple service, with words from Stuart's uncle on behalf of the family and from me, on behalf of the band.
Brian Grant
Believed that his uncle ran the (training) camp that he attended and was 75 to 80 percent certain that his grandfather ran the camp.
Hamid Hayat
That goes back to my Plymouth coaching days. I used to coach Mason's uncle and I've known the family for a long time.
Keith Diebler
When Great-Aunt Martha says uncle so-and-so had a 'touch of sugar,' it means he had diabetes. When someone says aunt so-and-so was senile, it could mean she had Alzheimer's disease. When someone had 'hardening of the arteries,' it usually means coronary artery disease. 'Spells,' 'fits' and all of those old-fashioned terms all translate to modern medical conditions you could be at risk for.
Rovenia M. Brock
They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.
Sarah Silverman
Pretty much everyone, as well as their Uncle Bob, is expecting the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates by 25 basis points [a quarter of a percentage point] to 3 per cent at tomorrow's announcement.
Douglas Porter
Anyone inclined to view Paul Laurence Dunbar as an apologist for the South or as a white-identified `Uncle Tom' would be quickly disabused of that view by reading the caustic, eloquent attacks on white racism that Dunbar published in newspapers.
David Bradley
My uncle taught me to play. He loved American music even though he didn't know the language.
Rafael Mendez
My uncle is Billy Blanks, the Tae Bo guy, ... The guys have heard about that, and they kind of rub it in about all of that.
Billy Blanks
My uncle often played the devil's advocate just to get a rise out of somebody, but was extremely giving, passionate about everything — what he was reading, religion, what he was doing, politics.
Mary Weaver
U.S. farmers don't care what they sell their crop for because Uncle Sam tops it off for them, so they're never losing money.
Paul Vogel
It was as if Harriet Beecher Stowe, after writing 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' had started the abolitionist movement.
Muriel Fox
My grandmother and maternal uncle were quite afraid of hospitals, and asked us to be careful when receiving a shot.
John Chiang
Up to a quarter of an investor's return can be surrendered to Uncle Sam, and in a low-return environment like we experienced last year that can be meaningful. I'm patriotic, but you should not pay too much in taxes if you don't have to.
Duncan Richardson
He was a fine young man. I'm extremely proud to say I'm his uncle.
Rich Phillips
Knowing my grandfather, his approach to these things has always been not to interfere with my uncle.
Pierce Bush
Not really. When I came on my recruiting trip, he told me I was going to wear the number. My uncle actually picked a report of him off the Internet, and I read it a little bit. Before that, I had no idea about it.
Mike Garrett
There was a tragic death of an uncle.
Harry Sachs
All of those very kind people helped to raise money for the Uncle Sam Grave Site fund.
Terry Page
The life that is written about in Uncle Tom's cabin was the Montgomery County component.
Peggy Erickson
Before my uncle passed away, I promised him I would audition for the school play. Alice is fun to play, and she is really stubborn.
Katlyn Watanuki
The ride's boring, ... but it is fun because I don't have to go to school and I get to see my grandma and grandpa and aunt and uncle.
Doug Jones
I picked golf up when I was five or six years old. My uncle, who is an ex-hockey player, is a golf professional in British Columbia. So I would spend my summers out there with him. Just grew to love the game and I played every day and I used to work at a golf course growing up.
John Mcnabb
You can't control the uncle who drives you crazy, for example, but you can control your response to him.
Joanne Herman
My grandparents were from India only. My relations are all in India, my mother belongs to India but the circumstances took a different turn and it all changed. I still have my uncle, I still have my relations (in India), we don't have any relatives here.
Javed Miandad
If the fight was here, Floyd would have been disqualified, end of story. He may have been winning the fight but what his uncle did was against the rules. We can't only enforce the rules when they suit us.
Larry Hazzard
The kids were giving the hepatitis A virus to mom, dad and Uncle Tom. And so if they didn't get the disease, the parents were protected.
Dr. William Schaffner
Make sure you haven't told Uncle George he can invest at any given time at any given amount.
David Dwyer
A lot of times they have a close relationship with an aunt or uncle or grandparent. We place the children with family members whenever possible.
Tom Shanahan
You get the tax credit based on the purchase price of the product and the installation and it's up to 10 percent of that cost to a max of $500 will be returned to you by Uncle Sam.
Kateri Callahan
Whenever I get a chance, I still find a song I can still relate to. I was in my early 20s when (the Uncle Tupelo) songs were written. As the years go by, it gets a little harder to relate to songs that were written so long ago.
Jay Farrar
This is my home. My uncle built it from his hands 67 years ago.
Sharon Tupper
In the past our bettors have correctly predicted the outcome of television shows like American Idol, as well as world events including the Papal conclave and Presidential elections. If the betting trend continues, it could mean the end of the line for Uncle Junior or Christopher, who both have several risk factors making them vulnerable to being killed-off.
Simon Noble
It was a fair feat for a local carpentry crew in 1920. I asked my uncle how it was done and he said they used one horse and a turnstile. Harold Woodcock's grandfather, Horatio Woodcock was the lead carpenter for the project.
Norman Knapp
If the prime minister of Pakistan does not test, he is viewed within the country as selling out national security for Uncle Sam and the International Monetary Fund. And if he does test, then the country's economic straits, which are very severe ... will grow worse.
Michael Krepon
My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.
Andy Garcia
It was kind of in the family. I started pitching a little bit and my uncle said I was pretty good.
Jocelyn Forest
What this would allow is a youth under age 17 accompanied by an adult would not need a license and not need a hunter education card. Prior to taking a hunter education course, a grandparent, an uncle, or maybe a Big Brother or Big Sister could take a young person out and show them hunting and see if they like it.
Kyle Hupfer
They came up and cleaned up the entire area around the Uncle Sam grave site. The community really was amazingly generous. We were overwhelmed with their generosity.
Terry Page
You know, it was an amazing thing from my own perspective, ... I appear white. When you had mixed-race children in those days, you took your black father's identity. So it was a little strange to be sitting there with this white couple and they were my aunt and uncle.
Dolores Johnson
I recognize that there's some concern that we're getting in the way of free commerce - that if Uncle Joe wants to sell his ticket to some guy, and he makes $10 on the sale, what's the problem with that? That's the hard part. That's the innocent aspect to what happens - but then there's the more criminal aspect of abusing people and frankly taking advantage of people.
Dave Nutter
I was very hungry today, ... I couldn't wait any longer to take this gold medal. This win means a lot for me. I want dedicate it to my uncle and my 3-month-old daughter.
Richard Jackson
I was 7 and he was 9. He was one of my uncle's best friends in school. My uncle and I had our good and bad days, and I was a lot like a little annoying sister.
Rachelle Hanrahan
The government enjoys having the use of your money all year. They get to spend and invest it for themselves, and you don't. So unless Uncle Sam is your favorite uncle, don't be giving him extra money all year round!
Gail Cunningham
It was the one thing he looked forward to. I want to bring the gift of caring that my uncle received to other people.
Taha Champsi
(Marty) and I were really close. He wasn't just my uncle. He raised me ever since I was a baby. I was like his little girl.
Allison Sharp
You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out of your pocket to pay Uncle Sam because the tax is paid based on accretion.
Scott Walker
[Long ago, in his biography of seminal jazz composer Jelly Roll Morton, my great-uncle Alan Lomax equated the city's contribution to American music with Florence's involvement in the arts of the Renaissance. But it was another city in Italy that seems closer to the mark now.] We've lost our city, ... I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.
Marc Morial
If someone has a difference with their mom, dad, their uncle, their cousin, their wife, their husband, children, with one another, go to that party and tell them why, give them a chance to acknowledge their wrong; give them a chance to confess it openly.
Louis Farrakhan
Most people by this time would be so wounded, they couldn't do anything with their lives. But his uncle filled Saddam with dreams of glory.
Jerrold Post
I gave him this story about my aunt and uncle (Anna and Vinnie) who had a little cafe in the Federal Hills section of Providence. All the wise guys would go in there and they befriended my aunt and uncle.
Artie Pasquale
My uncle had been a basketball player in his day. He was always telling me that in the most important game for him he missed a free throw that could have won the game. He told me he felt bad about it. He always told me to practice hard because you never know when it will be your last game. You never know when the game can be taken from you. When we lost to IMS, I felt like I let him down.
Travis Temple
To have a name amongst the 10,000 plus, that you can call your uncle, is a special thing.
Chris Koch
Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free.
Love Actually
I really thought Roy was going to retire after the Johnson fight. That's what he told me, and I believed it. Then, in June, I went out to his farm. Roy wasn't there. I asked where he was, and his uncle said that he was out doing roadwork. A few weeks after that, Roy got the gym cleaned up. Then he started training; and the next thing I knew, there was a fight.
Alton Merkerson
When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday, the young listener, who had hung out the window for an hour without seeing the star, questioned not Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray), but his own eyesight.
Vincent Canby
The people of a state spoke: they said, 'We believe that in our state we believe we have a right to have doctors prescribe medical marijuana... The federal government steps in and destroys the whole process When we come back we're going to meet a man who gets his pot from Uncle Sam.
Montel Williams
A well-meaning grandparent or aunt or uncle or parent can get a child started on a very easy basis. Just put in $50 a month -- you don't even notice -- and over the years the account builds and compounds very nicely.
David Brady
But we had an aunt and uncle that came in Thursday before they were supposed to be allowed in, and the officers didn't even stop them, ... That really concerns me. No one is even checking to see if the people coming in are actually local residents.
Ricky Gutierrez
Uncle Sam is going to ride to the rescue. That's the message to every city as a result of Katrina.
Jack Weiss
It's rather an explosive chapter in her personal history. I think Teri has always been tormented about what happened with her uncle.
Leslie Bennetts
My uncle called me this morning. When I heard it, it was a total shock. I couldn't believe it.
Donna Lamkin
After Chris' funeral I decided to grow my hair. Then a month later my uncle died of cancer. That was a hard hit to me. At first no one really knew why I was growing out my hair, but as they found out they understood.
Chadd Little
Back home in Austin, when I was growing up, he was like an uncle to me. A guy who had a great sense of humor and enjoyed having fun.
Tom Lembrick
Just start with something whimsical. An outlandish situation or character and just go from there. For example 'One day a long time ago, the Princess of Everybody and Everything came to Kansas City to visit her uncle. ...
Priscilla Howe
That's a one-time event that's behind us, ... The worst thing in the world isn't sending a check to Uncle Sam. That means you've made money.
Alberto Vilar
There's an intangibility factor with Stan. It's like having a second father or grandfather, or a favorite uncle who puts his arm around you.
Joe Dimuro
[Her uncle, William Kelly, sat in a driving rain outside Grace Church, waiting to hear the bells peal for his lost niece.] I keep asking the Lord, 'Why'? ... She was such a sweetheart.
William Kelly
For me, my mom wasn't actually a big advocate of allowing me to watch wrestling. However, my uncle, he was a huge wrestling fan and he got pay per views every month so he always had me over at his house to watch. I was just completely infatuated with the athleticism.
Shantelle Taylor
Well, I'm always introduced as Nat Cole's brother, Ike Cole's brother and Natalie Cole's uncle. So I added a few others. I'm also Lionel Cole's father. I'm Crystal Cole's father. I'm the Cole nobody knows.
Nat King Cole
It's got to be in your blood. My uncle used to say to me, 'You've got to get your kids over here so they can learn.' I don't want them to learn. There are easier ways to make money.
Lars Hanson
He is the first director to call me 'Uncle'!
Jackie Shroff
I hung out at Uncle Phil's Club Madrid nightspot where my mother was a waitress and my grandmother sold hot dogs and sauerkraut. I got to go backstage at the Jamboree and watch the show and then visit with musicians who stopped by the club later.
John Corbett
I really kind of started playing guitar in the late '60s. It was at about the same time my parents were making me take piano lessons. My uncle Bill taught me how to play the first couple of chords. I would always jam around with him, and that's how I got started.
Tim Reynolds
"Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past," Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, "in precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella will be late.
Nancy Mitford
I had never seen such buildings. This whirling, twisting, colorful world, and when we were ready to leave, the lights went on! I thought at first the place was on fire. And then my uncle said, 'No, those are just electric lights -- and they were marvelous.'
Morris Lapidus
I grew up in the Midlands area of England around the Birmingham area and when I was four years old, my uncle, who was living in the same house that I was living in, had as a hobby, playing the ukulele. At four years old, I was interested in this instrument already and he taught me a few chords on it. So that is how I started on string instruments.
Dave Holland
Before Wynn bought any hotels he used to go watch my uncle all the time.
Lou Styles
One of the first things I remember was going ramp digging with my dad and uncle.
Jim Meadows
I'm an uncle 16 times over. If anything, I know how to play scary monster.
Ron Stratton
His mother died when he was a little kid, his father didn't understand him, and he was raised by an aunt and uncle and a grandfather on a farm. He had a lot of darkness, without question.
Martin Landau
The aptly named Uncle Dick.
Gene Weingarten
But transfer of parole care does not mean that the child will be immediately removed from the home of the great- uncle.
Robert Wallis
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
Margaret Smith
Really, everybody sometimes will think about Christmas, Christmases past, like it was a Currier & Ives print, you know, the candle in the window, the snow on the sill, and isn't this wonderful? But the truth was Uncle Harry got drunk, the kids were fighting over the toys, there wasn't enough money, you overate.
Phil Mcgraw
It was really surreal. I had some family members there. I felt like I got the monkey off my back and I don't have to worry about that pressure any more. All of the hard work paid off that I put in with my dad. My Uncle Gabe played here and my grandmother Mary Louise played basketball. I come from a basketball family.
Alaina Hartman
You'd be amazed at the kind of things people come in and think they can deduct. If you're not sure about a deduction, talk to someone who knows the law, not your Uncle Louie.
Jackie Perlman
I spent most summers here and my uncle, John Kovach, was a teaching pro at Manor Valley Golf Course (in Export).
Jason Gore
My uncle used to wrestle. I just love wrestling.
Alyssa Vavricka
He was prouder still to be a member of that even more restricted group, Uncle Sam Rayburn's Board of Education-the Bourbon and Branch Water College of Congressional Knowledge.
Margaret Truman
He was my idol when I was growing up. His uncle used to hang out in my dad's blacksmith shop. That's how I emulated him, with my slap shot. I played against him when I came up here, then he played with me, then he coached me for a while. I'll always remember that.
Rod Gilbert
But anybody with any credibility at the time accepted that was Emmett's body, including the sheriff. He gave the body first to Moses Wright (Till's great-uncle) and then to a black funeral parlor. He later claimed the body was as white as he was, but he didn't think that when the body was found.
David Beito
Everybody was there. A bachelor aunt or uncle. You would all come to the table, even some stone-deaf member of the family, usually the oldest ... and he would mumble something under his breath.
Reynolds Price
I thought he looked like (Uncle Fester).
Cheryl Peyerk
They love watching their uncle play. They're just learning the basics of the game. They're learning rebounds and assists. It's great when they get to watch him.
Deirdre Hanley
My first team was the Vipers 10-and-under. My dad played baseball. My grandmother's uncle played professional baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals.
Brittany Hipple
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
Ray Bradbury
My dad played baseball and my uncle and pretty much everybody, so I was brought up early, at a young age, playing baseball.
Eric Sogard
I've been working here about three weeks -- since we opened -- and sometimes I am a manager or a waiter. Other times, I'm in the back helping my uncle.
Eric Gomez
I'm in touch with my grandma, she's in Indiana, my uncle, he went back to New Orleans and I got a cousin in Texas.
Elaine Nunn
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