"The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume control also turns to the left. - Jerry M. Wright
“It was nice growing up with someone like you—someone to lean on, someone to count on…someone to tell on!”—Unknown
“The more you’re loving and understanding, the more your kids will sing.”
- Maxime Lagacé
“It’s especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.”—Sean Covey, The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens
“Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can’t.”—Unknown
“As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.”—Prince William
"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.”
- Robert Fros
“The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.”
- Nancy Mitford
“From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge.”
- Jarod Kintz
“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern…like bad wallpaper.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche.
“Everyone knows that if you’ve got a brother, you’re going to fight.”—Liam Gallagher
“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
- Erma Bombeck
“If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that “Members not Present” and “Subjects Discussed” were one and the same.”
- Robert Brault
“If your family tree does not fork, you might be a redneck.”
- Jeff Foxworthy.
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”—George Bernard Shaw
“Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something.”—Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
“Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with someone long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.”—Chelsea Handler
“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”—Lewis Mumford
“It’s funny how your parents tell you it’s their house, but as soon as something needs cleaning, it magically becomes yours too.”—Unknown
“Family is a blessing. Just keep saying that when you are irritated by something a family member says.”
- Marcelina Hardy
“Nothing in life is fun for the whole family. There are no massage parlors with ice cream and free jewelry.”
- Jerry Seinfeld
"In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat." - Anna Quindlen
“In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families, that they are least two-thirds incontinent.”
- Robert Brault.
“Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.”
- Earl Wilson.
“Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.”
- Martin Mull.
“Never let an angry sister comb your hair.”
- Patricia McCann
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.”—Ogden Nash
“The best babysitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.”—Dave Barry
“I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.”—Fred Allen
“What strange creatures brothers are!”—Jane Austen
“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.”—Wayne Huizenga
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." - Ogden Nash
"Families are like fudge ... mostly sweet with a few nuts." - Unknown
“It’s not easy being a mom. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”—Betty White
“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”
- Cary Grant.
“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”—Sam Levenson
“The advantage of having only one child is that you always know who did it.”
- Erma Bombeck.
“Children really can brighten up a house, because they never turn the lights off.”
- Ralph Bus.
“A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.”—Lois Wyse
“To a small child, the perfect grandad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word “boo”.—Robert Breault
“Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.”—Pam Brown
"Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old, it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother that does." - J. Norman Collie
“In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.”
- Anna Quindlen
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”—Henny Youngman
“My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of the Film.”
- Penelope Lombard.
“I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.”
- Rodney Dangerfield
“Older siblings: the only people who will pick on you for their own entertainment and beat up anyone else who tries.”—Unknown
“Respect your parents. These guys pay for your internet.”—Unknown
“The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.”
- Robert Brault
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”—George Burns