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There are many people from the town or children of local natives who, like me, are born or live elsewhere but who every year return to San Severino and go up ngoppa u ’ paese viecchio( ‘ on the back of the ancient village ’) to find their origins and imagine what the life of their parents, uncles or grandparents could be like in the past, the attachment to the place is so strong for all the inhabitants( living in the new town) and those who have moved to other places for work, but whose heart belongs here. – Monica Gillocchi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The most hurtful part is how close it was to home, we would have never thought that this was going to happen here. And I’m sure people say that everywhere. But it’s shocking … And of course, I’m going to think about my mom and think about my family, my aunts, my uncles. It could have been them. – Lian Zhang	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I have two cousins in the war right now, fighting, i’ve got aunts and uncles who are … they’re at that age where they’re not leaving. They’re just going to stay there and just ride it out. – Alan Aguichev	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Clearly I won't have some questions answered because my mother and father are not here to answer that. So everything I get will be through the eyes of my siblings and my uncles and aunts. i'm just blown away that I got this far. I thought I would not know anything for the rest of my life. – Courtesy Joseph Wood Wood	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What's left of the Boomers that blindly support Henry Cuellar are fading, and the Boomers that consider themselves more moderate, like my dad, my uncles, my relatives, are listening to Gen Zers more, gen Z and millennials are becoming more activated in politics and we are advocating within our families for more progressive candidates. – Beatriz Mendoza	Found on CNN 2 years ago
A star-studded film like' House of Gucci' looks to prove why the movie theater experience remains such an attractive and irreplaceable setting for such marquee movie events, this is the type of movie tailor made to get parents, aunts, uncles, and even young adults out after a big Thanksgiving meal. – Shawn Robbins	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'll be damned if my family, uncles, cousins fought, bled, sacrificed all on foreign beaches to free millions of people being tortured and killed by insane genocidal fascists AS WELL AS trying to keep the rest of the world safe from these evil monsters, only to find some decades later, flags bearing Swastikas being planted in American soil, if not eventually American political buildings and agencies! – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
I’m telling you there is something wrong about Lori and Alex and this belief they have. Lori thinks death is nothing… The family — cousins and uncles — they understand the history with Lori, Alex, and Lori’s ex-husbands. There is a whole pattern of things there. – Adam Cox	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was my mom, dad, brother, aunts, uncles, friends. Everyone was here except my dog, I think. – Daulton Jefferies	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is dangerous, but the police are the public, the public are the police, there's women and men alike … brothers, sisters, uncles, aunties, we're just regular people but we put that uniform on to help protect. – Penny Lancaster	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When we talk about people who have died in our community, we are talking about uncles, cousins, siblings, a coworker, a relative, we are talking about people who had a close relationship with any of us one way or another. – Jose Vasquez	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The New York Times's detailed analysis and investigation revealed for the first time that the valuations on which I had relied in entering into the Settlement Agreement, and which were used to determine my compensation under Settlement Agreement, were fraudulent, i relied on the false valuations provided to me by my uncles and aunt, and would never have entered into Settlement Agreement had I known the true value of the assets involved. – Mary Trump	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Cathy continued to claimthat providing children with phones and screens causes them to grow up not normal. Cathy then revealed that she raised her children before iPads had been invented. Firing back, Mazza says she responded, I am a parent that grew up using a rotary phone. I am one that have seen the World Wide Web expand to what it is now. I have seen both sides of the coin, and now I am a parent in this world of one side. MOM SAYS THEATERS SHOULDNT ALLOW CERTAIN HAIRSTYLES AFTER TALL WOMAN WITH A BUN BLOCKED HER VIEW She continued to arguethat navigating this new world can be a very scary time. We are having to navigate this world without the support system that once existed. Ive had no support, no aunties and uncles sitting inside my house. No big village. The internet has become my village, and sometimes its a cruel one. I can spend time online and Im already told all the ways I am doing it wrong. – Laura Mazza	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I have uncles, I have friends that are cops. I have great respect for them because they are doing it for the right reason and they genuinely want to protect and help people. – Colin Kaepernick	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have cops that are murdering people. We have cops in SFPD that are blatantly racist. Those issues need to be addressed, i have uncles, I have friends that are cops. I have great respect for them because they are doing it for the right reason and they genuinely want to protect and help people. – Colin Kaepernick	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The first thing that came out of her mouth when she saw her uncles was,' We have to go back. We have to go back. My siblings, my brothers and sisters are dying. They're bleeding, they're shot. We have to go rescue them,' and that's all she cared about. – Lafe Langford	Found on CNN 4 years ago
My dad, Andre and couple of uncles and relatives went to check up on the vehicle. All they found was charred remains, ash and bones, there were remains inside and outside of the vehicle. – Krystal Bellaine Miller	Found on CNN 4 years ago
For all of our families, you guys were there the whole way and you remember the whole crazy ride and now we have a star, which is really cool, mom, you’re the best. My sisters, my amazing wife and my little son, Nash, right there. It’s funny to look at him and he’s looking up at me like he has no idea why everyone’s going crazy right now. Nash, you got some of the best uncles on the planet right here if you ever got any problems. – Justin Timberlake	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I know who I am because of what my mother and my father told me, what my grandmother and my grandfather told me, what all my aunts and uncles told me, and my brothers, it’s a part of who I am and no one’s ever going to take that away. – Elizabeth Warren	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
That process -- we normally don't do it, we use our mom's address or something. Still, my uncles receive letters at my grandmother's house. – Alexis Santos	Found on CNN 6 years ago
But there’s no connective tissue between us and what’s coming out in the media, i don’t know that we can change anyone’s mind but what people have to understand is, and what we are obligated to repeat in every interview is : We’ve got black aunties. We’ve got black nephews, uncles. Black parents and black grandparents. We deal with them every single day. We deal with the struggle every single day. And people don’t have to get on board with what we’re doing based on a press release. But when they’re writing about us, and commenting about us, they should be mindful of the fact that there are no sell-outs involved in this show. – Malcolm Spellman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
My two uncles are international boxers, and my father is a coach, boxing is in our blood. – Anum Qambrani	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Among Triassic geologic formations containing fossils, The Chaares Formation is The Chaares Formation. The Chaares Formation contains a variety of complete fossil specimens of early dinosauromorphs, which are essentially dinosaur aunts, uncles and cousins. – Randall Irmis	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I have personally rescued thousands of children, and most times in small-scale industries especially, the employers, traffickers and slave masters claim that they are uncles of the children, who is going to do a DNA test on them to check if they are related to the children? – Kailash Satyarthi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

There are many people from the town or children of local natives who, like me, are born or live elsewhere but who every year return to San Severino and go up ngoppa u ’ paese viecchio( ‘ on the back of the ancient village ’) to find their origins and imagine what the life of their parents, uncles or grandparents could be like in the past, the attachment to the place is so strong for all the inhabitants( living in the new town) and those who have moved to other places for work, but whose heart belongs here.

– Monica Gillocchi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The most hurtful part is how close it was to home, we would have never thought that this was going to happen here. And I’m sure people say that everywhere. But it’s shocking … And of course, I’m going to think about my mom and think about my family, my aunts, my uncles. It could have been them.

– Lian Zhang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have two cousins in the war right now, fighting, i’ve got aunts and uncles who are … they’re at that age where they’re not leaving. They’re just going to stay there and just ride it out.

– Alan Aguichev

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Clearly I won't have some questions answered because my mother and father are not here to answer that. So everything I get will be through the eyes of my siblings and my uncles and aunts. i'm just blown away that I got this far. I thought I would not know anything for the rest of my life.

– Courtesy Joseph Wood Wood

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What's left of the Boomers that blindly support Henry Cuellar are fading, and the Boomers that consider themselves more moderate, like my dad, my uncles, my relatives, are listening to Gen Zers more, gen Z and millennials are becoming more activated in politics and we are advocating within our families for more progressive candidates.

– Beatriz Mendoza

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A star-studded film like' House of Gucci' looks to prove why the movie theater experience remains such an attractive and irreplaceable setting for such marquee movie events, this is the type of movie tailor made to get parents, aunts, uncles, and even young adults out after a big Thanksgiving meal.

– Shawn Robbins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'll be damned if my family, uncles, cousins fought, bled, sacrificed all on foreign beaches to free millions of people being tortured and killed by insane genocidal fascists AS WELL AS trying to keep the rest of the world safe from these evil monsters, only to find some decades later, flags bearing Swastikas being planted in American soil, if not eventually American political buildings and agencies!

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

I’m telling you there is something wrong about Lori and Alex and this belief they have. Lori thinks death is nothing… The family — cousins and uncles — they understand the history with Lori, Alex, and Lori’s ex-husbands. There is a whole pattern of things there.

– Adam Cox

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was my mom, dad, brother, aunts, uncles, friends. Everyone was here except my dog, I think.

– Daulton Jefferies

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is dangerous, but the police are the public, the public are the police, there's women and men alike … brothers, sisters, uncles, aunties, we're just regular people but we put that uniform on to help protect.

– Penny Lancaster

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When we talk about people who have died in our community, we are talking about uncles, cousins, siblings, a coworker, a relative, we are talking about people who had a close relationship with any of us one way or another.

– Jose Vasquez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The New York Times's detailed analysis and investigation revealed for the first time that the valuations on which I had relied in entering into the Settlement Agreement, and which were used to determine my compensation under Settlement Agreement, were fraudulent, i relied on the false valuations provided to me by my uncles and aunt, and would never have entered into Settlement Agreement had I known the true value of the assets involved.

– Mary Trump

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Cathy continued to claimthat providing children with phones and screens causes them to grow up not normal. Cathy then revealed that she raised her children before iPads had been invented. Firing back, Mazza says she responded, I am a parent that grew up using a rotary phone. I am one that have seen the World Wide Web expand to what it is now. I have seen both sides of the coin, and now I am a parent in this world of one side. MOM SAYS THEATERS SHOULDNT ALLOW CERTAIN HAIRSTYLES AFTER TALL WOMAN WITH A BUN BLOCKED HER VIEW She continued to arguethat navigating this new world can be a very scary time. We are having to navigate this world without the support system that once existed. Ive had no support, no aunties and uncles sitting inside my house. No big village. The internet has become my village, and sometimes its a cruel one. I can spend time online and Im already told all the ways I am doing it wrong.

– Laura Mazza

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I have uncles, I have friends that are cops. I have great respect for them because they are doing it for the right reason and they genuinely want to protect and help people.

– Colin Kaepernick

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have cops that are murdering people. We have cops in SFPD that are blatantly racist. Those issues need to be addressed, i have uncles, I have friends that are cops. I have great respect for them because they are doing it for the right reason and they genuinely want to protect and help people.

– Colin Kaepernick

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The first thing that came out of her mouth when she saw her uncles was,' We have to go back. We have to go back. My siblings, my brothers and sisters are dying. They're bleeding, they're shot. We have to go rescue them,' and that's all she cared about.

– Lafe Langford

Found on CNN
4 years ago

My dad, Andre and couple of uncles and relatives went to check up on the vehicle. All they found was charred remains, ash and bones, there were remains inside and outside of the vehicle.

– Krystal Bellaine Miller

Found on CNN
4 years ago

For all of our families, you guys were there the whole way and you remember the whole crazy ride and now we have a star, which is really cool, mom, you’re the best. My sisters, my amazing wife and my little son, Nash, right there. It’s funny to look at him and he’s looking up at me like he has no idea why everyone’s going crazy right now. Nash, you got some of the best uncles on the planet right here if you ever got any problems.

– Justin Timberlake

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I know who I am because of what my mother and my father told me, what my grandmother and my grandfather told me, what all my aunts and uncles told me, and my brothers, it’s a part of who I am and no one’s ever going to take that away.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

That process -- we normally don't do it, we use our mom's address or something. Still, my uncles receive letters at my grandmother's house.

– Alexis Santos

Found on CNN
6 years ago

But there’s no connective tissue between us and what’s coming out in the media, i don’t know that we can change anyone’s mind but what people have to understand is, and what we are obligated to repeat in every interview is : We’ve got black aunties. We’ve got black nephews, uncles. Black parents and black grandparents. We deal with them every single day. We deal with the struggle every single day. And people don’t have to get on board with what we’re doing based on a press release. But when they’re writing about us, and commenting about us, they should be mindful of the fact that there are no sell-outs involved in this show.

– Malcolm Spellman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

My two uncles are international boxers, and my father is a coach, boxing is in our blood.

– Anum Qambrani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Among Triassic geologic formations containing fossils, The Chaares Formation is The Chaares Formation. The Chaares Formation contains a variety of complete fossil specimens of early dinosauromorphs, which are essentially dinosaur aunts, uncles and cousins.

– Randall Irmis

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I have personally rescued thousands of children, and most times in small-scale industries especially, the employers, traffickers and slave masters claim that they are uncles of the children, who is going to do a DNA test on them to check if they are related to the children?

– Kailash Satyarthi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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