Sentences with phrase «told by his uncle»

As Spiderman was told by his Uncle Ben, «With great power comes great responsibility.»

Told by Uncle Joe Kirk, a Wakka Wakka Elder (Judy Radich, early childhood educator).

Not exact matches

What would Great Uncle Bulgaria tell you if you asked him how he can afford a caviar and Caribbean lifestyle when many of his old age peers have to get by with cheese crackers and caravans?

She told me all about the prophecy from my uncle; it was just completely dumbfounding me that there was this whole divine conspiracy that had been worked out by God.

They can't have all been there the same year, but my memory puts together on the table sweet potatoes and yams, butternut squash and the white potatoes mashed with milk and butter that — in one of those family traditions by which chores get divvied up — we were told only Uncle Hugo could make well.

The first few pages is a story told by my Great Uncle Bill of his favorite food memories as a child.

When a woman is told by lets say their dad or uncle» if you let them cry it out they will be better as they grow up» This is just my opinion, Women have the «nurturing instinct» meaning when they are told they should put their baby down and them CIO and they do so their instinct is telling them to go pick the baby up but another influence tells them other wise, now MEN to me have the instinct to teach their youngins to «cry me river its not so bad youll live» id prefer not letting my child CIO, I just wanted to see how long out of curiosity that she would CIO (my dad suggested i try) and she went on for an hour before i said forget this i cant concentrate i have to pick her up cuz it ai nt doin nothing... so i havnt done it since.

«Anchor them in the situation by asking them questions like, «Did you notice how upset Uncle Frank looked when you told him his breath was stinky?»

Paladino's nephew, 23 - year - old Jeff Hannon — who, as Paladino has been eager to point out over the past two days, works as a staffer for the campaign — hasn't shown up to work this week, and tells the Post that he's «obviously... very offended» by what his uncle has said.

Before he hung up, knowing that his specific London location was soon be traced, Hunt pointedly told Kittridge: «If you're dealing with someone who's crushed, stabbed, shot and detonated five members of his own IMF team, how devastated do you think you're gonna make him by marching Ma and Uncle Donald down to the county courthouse?»

Although Miller admits the idea was inspired by the Dracula story, whether blood - thirsty creatures of the night will infiltrate the narrative (telling the tale of a series of strange events that befall a young girl and her widowed mother upon a visit from an enigmatic uncle) is purely the subject of conjecture.

The source material this time is The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant, which tells the story of Bondurant's grandfather and uncles.

Suddenly, Norman is the unwilling key to the town's very survival, or so he's told by his eccentric, and none too hygienic uncle (John Goodman), who claims credit for having kept the witch at bay all these years, and that now it's Norman's turn.

Now she's driven by what her grandmother used to tell her: «Look at your parents, your aunts and uncles.

It tells the story of a seven - year - old math prodigy being raised by her laid - back uncle.

One I always remembered was told each year by a favorite uncle of mine, a squat, ex cab driver who had served in World War II and was a pretty gritty guy.

Not that it mattered, for there were no latches to keep them out and nobody within calling distance except Uncle Potty on the other side of the jhora ravine, who would be drunk on the floor by this hour, lying still but feeling himself pitch about — «Don't mind me, love,» he always told Sai after a drinking bout, opening one eye like an owl, «I'll just lie down right here and take a little rest --» They had come through the forest on foot, in leather jackets from the Kathmandu black market, khaki pants, bandanas — universal guerilla fashion.

The Great Northern Express by Howard Frank Mosher Crown, $ 25, 256 pages As a young boy, Howard Frank Mosher would sit at the knee of his honorary uncle, Reg Bennett, and beg him to tell stories.

Concurrently, Aurélie du Bessancourt, the aristocrat's eldest daughter, tells her own story from 1789 — one of her family scrambling to enter the Palais, being held prisoner by her father and uncle, and her own attempt to escape.

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«As a child, I was repeatedly told by my father that I had an Aboriginal uncle.

Understandable doubt when he is told to assassinate his uncle the king, by his dead father the former king... a ghost.