These aunt quotes will inspire you. Aunt the sister of one’s father or mother or the wife of one’s uncle.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging aunt quotes, aunt sayings, and aunt proverbs.
Famous Aunt Quotes
- “The best aunts aren’t substitute parents, they’re co-conspirators.” ~ Daryl Gregory
- “I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.” ~ Bailee Madison
- “My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.” ~ Tyra Banks
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“I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.” ~ Giada De Laurentiis
- “I had people in my life who didn’t give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.” ~ Temple Grandin
- “When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – ‘I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,’ and so forth, I switch off quite early.” ~ Christopher Hitchens
- “Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.” ~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- “My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.” ~ Giada De Laurentiis
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“Maybe I’ll just be a good aunt.” ~ Kim Kardashian
- “I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.” ~ Cher
- “It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.” ~ Aneurin Bevan
- “Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother’s, but not every night.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids – because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.” ~ Kelly Clarkson , Aunt quotes niece
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“I have always maintained the importance of Aunts” ~ Jane Austen
- “Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don’t chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.” ~ Sara Sheridan
- “Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.” ~ Kate Douglas Wiggin
- “My parents didn’t really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.” ~ Mike Krzyzewski
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“I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.” ~ Kate DiCamillo
- “My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.” ~ Princess Margaret
- “Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don’t remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.” ~ Elliott Carter
- “It has to do – I think – with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.” ~ Larry David
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“I think I’m a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.” ~ George Eads
- “My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.” ~ Robert Ripley
- “Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.” ~ Gillian Anderson
- “They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.” ~ Queen Elizabeth II
- “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
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“Aunt Marion was right… Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.” ~ Charles M. Schulz
- “Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
- “I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.” ~ George Seaton
- “But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.” ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
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“Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she’d be your uncle.” ~ Alvah Bessie
- “I’ve had aunts and uncles who not only haven’t read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.” ~ Robert Cormier
- “My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?” ~ Billy Wilder
- “But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.” ~ Jason Alexander
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“The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.” ~ William Shenstone
- “I’m from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.” ~ Robin Tunney
- “It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.” ~ Brooke Shields
- “Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.” ~ Sister Parish
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“My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.” ~ Dick Dale
- “I didn’t come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.” ~ George Lopez
- “They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth.” ~ Tina Yothers
- “Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.” ~ Lord Mountbatten
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“God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.” ~ Muhammad
- “I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?” ~ William Butler Yeats
- “No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won’t forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we’ll include them in our future.” ~ Rita Mae Brown
- “All my life, up until that moment, I’d had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.” ~ Karen Marie Moning
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“Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.” ~ Phyllis McGinley
- “Why were you lurking under our window?” “Yes – yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?” “Listening to the news,” said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. “Listening to the news! Again?” “Well, it changes every day, you see,” said Harry.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical time.” ~ M. Russell Ballard , Aunt quotes love
- “Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life…It would be cliché to say my dad, my granddad. I think I’m a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.” ~ George Eads
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“We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.” ~ Vera Farmiga
- “When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his aunt’s house and slip through into Fillory…it’s like he’s opening the covers of a book, but a book that did what books always promised to do and never ac tually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into something better.” ~ Lev Grossman
- “His name’s Nash.” Aunt Val took a butter knife from the silverware drawer. “What year is he?” I groaned inwardly. “Senior.” …here we go … Her smile was a little too enthusiastic. “Well that’s wonderful!” Of course, what she really meant was “Rise from the shadows, social leper, and walk in the bright light of acceptance!” ~ Rachel Vincent
- “This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth.” ~ P. G. Wodehouse
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“My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.” ~ Jack Kerouac
- “Harmony glanced to her left, and my gaze followed hers to the living room, where my aunt had died, my cousin had been restored, and I’d whacked a psychotic grim reaper with a cast-iron skillet. Weirdest. Tuesday. Ever.” ~ Rachel Vincent
- “Did I ever tell you,’ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, ‘that that aunt of mine once hatched an egg?’ He paused, deep in thought, and walked slowly to the door before turning again. His lordship of Aubigny, staring after the vanishing form of his brother, received the full splendour of Lymond’s smile. ‘It was a cuckoo,’ said Francis Crawford prosaically, and followed Lennox out.” ~ Dorothy Dunnett
- “But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn’t be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves.” ~ Rachel Vincent
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“This is getting ugly.” – Abigail “Like my great-aunt’s underpants.” – Sundown” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
- “I sat around the kitchen every Sunday afternoon listening to my mother and aunts talk about the people in the neighborhood. Gossip – I loved it. And that turns out to be the writer’s job: to attend to the gossip and spread it as far as you can.” ~ John Dufresne
- “Social mores change with time, like fashion – who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become “abominations,” although I’m not sure recycling one’s aunt will ever truly catch on.” ~ Jasper Fforde
- “I have family dotted everywhere – Dad’s in California; I’ve got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.” ~ Hayley Atwell
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“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.” ~ Margaret Atwood
- “From age 23 to 44 – I’m 45 now – I was always in need of money, and I was especially in need of it from 23 to about 34, and my great aunt would always give me money, a hundred bucks, every two months or so, and a lot of times that hundred bucks made a huge difference – I could eat or pay a small bill. It kept me going. She gave me money. It was very loving.” ~ Jonathan Ames
- “I am the lucky duck because I have family . My wonderful aunt and uncle are letting me crash on their couch, which isn’t really a couch…I have a room! It’s been kind of a blessing for the cast because all of us have gotten so close, not knowing anyone in Atlanta. All the guys on the show have become kind of like brothers, and all of us girls are pretty inseparable.” ~ Candice Accola
An aunt is the sister of one’s father or mother.
