“After Chris' funeral I decided to grow my hair. Then a month later my uncle died of cancer. That was a hard hit to me. At first no one really knew why I was growing out my hair, but as they found out they understood.”
Chadd Little
“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
“I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight”
William Shakespeare
“Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.”
“and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm”
E. E. Cummings
“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
“I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.”
Russell B. Long
