Auntie Quotes

Jim Acheson, our designer, told me I looked like his Auntie Wyn and I have never forgotten it. I wondered if it was the way I walked or wore my hat, but Jim just said that I had some indefinable air of an aunt. It was then I began to hope that one day I might play Lady Bracknell. (Tom Baker)

Bye-bye," Auntie cooed, and waved a tattered wing. "Bye-bye, 12-8, you fool!

Kathryn Lasky

I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

Florence Welch

Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

Anne F. Beiler

When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Annes in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.

Anne F. Beiler

The BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.

Morley Safer

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

Nina Bawden

When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'

Sherri Shepherd

I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fukin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bastrd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fukin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.

John Lennon

I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more. But listening to Auntie Lin tonight reminds me once agian: My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more. No doubt she told Auntie Lin I was going back to school to get a doctorate.

Amy Tan

My auntie Nora right, all her food is mashed. She's got teeth but she don't need 'em [Karl on how his auntie blends her food and never uses her teeth]. (Karl Pilkington)

It is said that over time, owners come to resemble their dogs. But does that excuse auntie Hilda from shitting in the garden?

Simon Munnery