“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
“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
“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”—Sam Levenson
“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
“When I was ten, my family moved to Downer’s Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.”
- Emo Phillips.
“Teach your kids to spend more time annoying each other so they have less time to spend annoying you.”—Unknown
“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.
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." - Ogden Nash
“As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.”—Buddy Hackett
“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.”—Ellen DeGeneres
“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
“Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.”—Gene Perret
“The advantage of having only one child is that you always know who did it.”
- Erma Bombeck.
“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
“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
"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
“What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.”
- Rodney Dangerfield.
“As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.”—Prince William
"Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old, it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother that does." - J. Norman Collie
“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.”—Wayne Huizenga
"The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume control also turns to the left. - Jerry M. Wright
“I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance—waiting for the bathroom.”—Bob Hope
“I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.”
- Rodney Dangerfield
“I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.”
- Ugo Betti
“Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.”
- Douglas Adams.
“Everyone knows that if you’ve got a brother, you’re going to fight.”—Liam Gallagher
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”—George Bernard Shaw
"At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves." - George Orwell“Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.”
- Gracie Allen
“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.”
- Sam Levenson
"In some families, 'please' is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was 'sorry.'" - Margaret Laurence
“A man’s womenfolk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.”
- H. L. Mencken.
"When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them." - George Bernard Shaw
“Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie, not perfect but who’s complaining?”
- Robert Brault.
"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
“Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can’t.”—Unknown
“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern…like bad wallpaper.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche.
“I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.”—Fred Allen
“What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.”—Esther Friesner
“Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?”—Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
“I know family comes first, but shouldn’t that mean after breakfast?”
- Jeff Lindsay.
“My friends and family always thought I was pretty funny, but I don’t know if they thought I was get-my-own-show funny.”
- Nick Kroll
“Family is a blessing. Just keep saying that when you are irritated by something a family member says.”
- Marcelina Hardy
“I realized my family was funny because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.”
- Anthony Anderson
“Grandmas don’t just say “that’s nice”—they reel back and roll their eyes and throw up their hands and smile. You get your money’s worth out of grandmas.”—Unknown
“The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.”
- Robert Brault
“You can kid the world, but not your sister.”—Charlotte Gray
“My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.”—Spike Milligan
“I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
- Mary Karr
“What strange creatures brothers are!”—Jane Austen
“There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent!”
― Rossana Condoleo
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