These nephew quotes will inspire you. Nephew, a son of one’s brother, sister, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging nephew quotes, nephew sayings, and nephew proverbs.
Best Nephew Quotes
- “Turtles are greater than baby nephews, because it’s ok to drop a turtle.” ~ Demetri Martin
- “Why can’t I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That’s how I want to love him – through pictures and folklore.” ~ Ray Romano , Nephew quotes love
- “I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.” ~ Tahj Mowry
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“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.” ~ James Allen
- “No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
- “What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?” ~ Thomas Malory
- “I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.” ~ Anjelica Huston
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“I object to that remark very strongly! – The Magician’s Nephew” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it’s unbelievably clear.” ~ Steven Wright
- “But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.” ~ Jane Austen
- “Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.” ~ Francis of Assisi
- “My nephew’s always crying. I’m like, ‘Dude, why are you crying? Your life is great. All you do is eat apple sauce and take dumps. That’s your day.” ~ Hannibal Buress
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“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” ~ George Eliot
- “I’ve got loads of nieces and nephews.” ~ Karl Pilkington
- “Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.” ~ Salman Khan
- “Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.” ~ Andrea Hirata
- “I’m not a fan of Star Wars. That is not for me. That is for my nephews and nieces. I don’t get it.” ~ William Friedkin
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“I have experience seducing nephews.” ~ Gina Lollobrigida
- “My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn’t relate to me, and now I’m like a god.” ~ Ruth Buzzi
- “Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
- “There’s something so great about being with your nephew and, when you’re tired, just handing him off back to your sister.” ~ Tahj Mowry
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“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
- “To me, my nephew is the angel of my world. It is my absolute happiest moment whenever he smiles at me. I have stopped working 24 hours a day like I was before, and I rush back home to see him whenever I can after work. That always makes my day.” ~ Li Bingbing
- “Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “It’s really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my grandad and nan. I love spending time with my family, and music has always bonded us.” ~ Jessie J
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“If you think I’m fast, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno.” ~ Ayrton Senna
- “You have family”, Bob said. “You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That’s called family”.” ~ Elizabeth Strout
- “If the technology hadn’t changed, they [newspapers] would still be great businesses. Network TV [in its heyday], anyone could run and do well. If Tom Murphy as running it, you’d do very well, but even your idiot nephew could do well. Fortunately, carbide cutting tools [such as those made by Iscar] don’t have these types of substitutes.” ~ Charlie Munger
- “I like to service the full audience of America, so I try to do things that are just real artistic, like when they don’t have the most money, but it’s a great piece of work. Then, there are big, fun comedies and big animated movies for kids. I want to do things for my nieces and nephews. Ultimately, we’re trying to deliver something entertaining to an audience. As long as it can entertain the audience, and it makes me or my niece and nephew laugh or cry, then I think it’s good.” ~ Queen Latifah
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“In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn’t even sure all the time that he had done the right thing; but whenever he remembered the shining tears in Aslan’s eyes he became sure.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “If you’ve got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station – I’m talking of the past – you know, your idiot nephew could run it. And if you’ve got a really good business, it doesn’t make any difference.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “I think the relationship [in Aquarius] with her nephew shows that she’s not nostalgic. She just wants to preserve what is important to her – her records, her books, even some furniture. She doesn’t want to leave that house because it is her home. That is where her kids were born. After moving so much in my life, I was touched by Clara’s need to stay in that apartment. I love her life, and that may be why I connected to her so strongly. We are the most alike when we are fighting for our rights.” ~ Sonia Braga
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“I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.” ~ Bob Balaban
- “The business can be frustrating. For me, Omaha is a rounding foundation. I was raised in a very faith-filled household, very hardworking. It made me aware of what privilege is. And it’s a place I can go back to, spend time with nieces and nephews, celebrate the things that have nothing to do with the hubbub of Hollywood.” ~ Nicholas D’Agosto
- “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!” ~ Dolly Parton
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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” ~ Anais Nin
- “When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You’re hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.” ~ Beck
- “You, know I’m the Queen’s favorite great nephew, Well, yeah I’m her only great nephew, but that’s not important, I’d still be her favorite.” ~ Richelle Mead
- “I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.” ~ Lacey Chabert
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“Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn’t go far didn’t see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.” ~ Tim Allen
- “It takes a year, nephew… a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.” ~ Annie Proulx
- “For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry.” ~ Erich Segal
- , “The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than necessary, as the new morality of catch-and-release has shown. What is important is what happens between people on fishing trips, especially between uncles and nephews, fathers and sons, old men in general and young boys in particular, it is one of the few times men are together without women.” ~ Paul G. Quinnett , Nephew quotes uncle
- “My father’s best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.” ~ Louis Gossett, Jr.
- “This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I see her again? What shall we do today? Do you like these shoes? Theory and reflection are delicate old uncles bustled out of the way by the boisterous nephews action and desire. Themes evaporate, only plot remains.” ~ Glen Duncan
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“Come, then,” returned the nephew gaily. “What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Afghans excel at fighting Afghans. This is what Afghans do, even when they are not being invaded by foreign powers. They fight each other, tribe against tribe, brother against brother, half-brother against half-brother, cousin against cousin, uncle against nephew, father against son.” ~ Phyllis Chesler
- “The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.” ~ Laozi
- “Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
- “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 , Nephew quotes aunt
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“Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.” ~ Epicurus
- “The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.” ~ E. O. Wilson
- “What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew’s courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- “I can’t work out and *not* be watching or listening to music or something. I also journal a lot. I think writing is super therapeutic. And then, hanging with my nieces and nephews. Just like baking or doing silly stuff like jumping on a trampoline, doing fun things with them, pretending I’m five with them, that makes my day.” ~ Khloe Kardashian
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“Well, I’m an uncle now … don’t know if I’m a good one. My nephew asked me the difference between a hamster and a gerbil and I told him I thought there was more dark meat on a gerbil.” ~ Bobcat Goldthwait
- “She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn’t steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape.” ~ P. G. Wodehouse
- “But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! for then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And never be met with again!” ~ Lewis Carroll
- “A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard.” ~ C. S. Lewis
