Losing Your Uncle Quotes & Sayings

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. — H.L. Mencken

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that. — John Wayne

I want you to write for you and about you, from the depth of you. — Erin McCahan

What the hell is the matter with Eddie? Ruth was thinking. If he doesn't stop staring at me, I'm going to drive off the road!
Hannah had also noticed that Eddie was staring at Ruth. What the hell is the matter with Eddie? Hannah was thinking. Since when did the asshole take an interest in a younger woman? — John Irving

Tis the good reader that makes the good book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today's plans have changed, babe," he announced before taking a sip of his, and I looked at him. "Plans?" I asked, not knowing we actually had plans. "Yeah, gotta be at George's in an hour." "George's?" I queried. "Though, thinkin' this is good. You can meet him, feel him out." "Meet him? Feel him out?" I parroted. — Kristen Ashley

I'm going to paste it up on the wall so my dickhead uncle sees it the moment he walks in and stops going on about me losing it. — Melina Marchetta

Just how many drinks have you had?"
"Not enough," he said, his voice oceans deep.
"Not enough to forget her?"
"There isn't enough alcohol on the planet to make me forget her. — Darynda Jones

I realized that Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love and get married and die in three days, which is like a super-condensed version of what happens to most people over their whole life. One way or the other, you end up losing the person, but you still are happy that you loved them. I mean, Uncle Dub wouldn't have wished that he had never met Aunt Zinnia, just because he knew that one day she wouldn't be in his life anymore. — Suzanne Harper

Woody [Harrelson] and I actually worked together years ago on North Country. So I felt completely at ease. — Michelle Monaghan

We hold each other and I'm shaking, because I'm thinking how close I came to losing her. If she'd been closer to ground zero in San Diego, she'd be dead now. So many people are dead, because for decades citizens like me and my dad, my uncle, and Lissa's parents - good people - quietly financed war after war because it's easier to pay our taxes than to risk our livelihoods by trying to change the system. Our silence let wealth accumulate in the hands of people like Thelma Sheridan, people who came to believe they could buy absolutely anything, even innocence. — Linda Nagata

I always made sure to put them back in the exact order in which I had found them, for fear of losing the privilege of browsing in my uncle's library. — Firoozeh Dumas

Facts just twist the truth around. — David Byrne

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? — Mary Wollstonecraft

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. — Nadine Gordimer

I really like musicals - 'The Music Man,' 'Oklahoma!,' 'Li'l Abner,' 'Annie Get Your Gun.' — Brendon Urie

Don't give advice unless you're asked. — Amy Alcott

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading? — Ayn Rand

Some evenings, I kneel toward Mecca with my uncle.
Maybe Mecca
is the place Leftie goes to in his mind, when
the memory of losing
his arm becomes too much. Maybe Mecca is
good memories,
presents and stories and poetry and arroz con pollo
and family and friends...

Maybe Mecca is the place everyone is looking for...

It's out there in front of you, my uncle says.

I know I'll know it
when I get there. — Jacqueline Woodson

Garrett must have sensed I was awake. "Hey Detective," he said to Uncle Bob, who was now trudging across the grating toward us. "I think we're losing her. I have no choice but to perform mouth-to-mouth."
"Don't you dare," I said, my lids still in lockdown. — Darynda Jones

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends. — Frederick Lenz

All that majesty, all that infinite variety of energy, and all we see is a narrow little slice of it: seven measly colors. — Michael Reaves, Mallory Reaves