“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
“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern…like bad wallpaper.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche.
“What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.”—Esther Friesner
“If your family tree does not fork, you might be a redneck.”
- Jeff Foxworthy.
“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
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”—Henny Youngman
“I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
- Mary Karr
“I realized my family was funny because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.”
- Anthony Anderson
"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
“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
“The advantage of having only one child is that you always know who did it.”
- Erma Bombeck.
“My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.”—Spike Milligan
“It’s not easy being a mom. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”—Betty White
“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”—Phyllis Diller
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." - Ogden Nash
“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
“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
“My dad used to say, ‘Always fight fire with fire.’ Which is probably why he got thrown out of the fire brigade.”—Harry Hill
“Children really can brighten up a house, because they never turn the lights off.”
- Ralph Bus.
"If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion." - Ashleigh Brilliant
“Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.”—Pam Brown
“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
“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”
- Cary Grant.
“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
“As a child, my family’s menu consisted of two choices take it or leave it.”
- Buddy Hacket
“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”—Sam Levenson
“Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie, not perfect but who’s complaining?”
- Robert Brault.
“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
“Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.”—Barbara Delinsky
“I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.”
- Ugo Betti
“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.
“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.
“You can kid the world, but not your sister.”—Charlotte Gray
“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”—Lewis Mumford
“It was nice growing up with someone like you—someone to lean on, someone to count on…someone to tell on!”—Unknown
“Never let an angry sister comb your hair.”
- Patricia McCann
“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
“What strange creatures brothers are!”—Jane Austen
“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.
“Teach your kids to spend more time annoying each other so they have less time to spend annoying you.”—Unknown
"Families are like fudge ... mostly sweet with a few nuts." - Unknown
“I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.”
- Rodney Dangerfield
“Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.”
- Shailene Woodley.
“The more you’re loving and understanding, the more your kids will sing.”
- Maxime Lagacé
“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.”—Wayne Huizenga
“One would be in less danger, from the wiles of the stranger, if one’s own kin and kith, were more fun to be with.”
- Ogden Nash
“Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something.”—Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
"The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume control also turns to the left. - Jerry M. Wright
“Nothing in life is fun for the whole family. There are no massage parlors with ice cream and free jewelry.”
- Jerry Seinfeld
“Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.”
- Douglas Adams.
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