#uncle

He loved children and used to dandle me on his knee. This was how the title came about for this book, Uncle Hitler, although in the old German tradition, I called him Uncle Adolf, even though I was not related to him. This was a sign of respect to an older person, which is why I called Frau Eva ‘Aunty Eva’. However, little did I know at that time what revulsion the name Adolf Hitler would eventually invoke in the decent conscience of the world. ↗

— Alfred Nestor

#alfred-nestor #author-alfred-nestor #eva-anna-paula-hitler #eva-braun #hitler

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. ↗

— David Amram

#duke #duke ellington #ellington #few #hear

The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it. ↗

— Rebecca Skloot

#consent #laws #lot #people #realize

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#both #cancer #dad #died #gene

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

#avenue #bronx #davidson #grandparents #had

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate. ↗

— Dusty Baker

#dad #father #feel #i #i feel

Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle. ↗

— Alvah Bessie

#beard #had #maybe #she #uncle

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. ↗

— Al Gore

#leads #things #unclear

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#child #lap #liza #me #sammy

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven. ↗