“The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.”
- Robert Brault
“I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
- Mary Karr
“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.
“Never let an angry sister comb your hair.”
- Patricia McCann
“Parents must get across the idea that “I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.”—Amy Vanderbilt
“As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.”—Prince William
“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”—Sam Levenson
“I love playing a dad. It’s hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.”
- Peter Gallagher
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." - Ogden Nash
“Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.”
- Shailene Woodley.
"If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion." - Ashleigh Brilliant
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”—George Bernard Shaw
“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
“Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.”
- Martin Mull.
“I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.”
- Ugo Betti
“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.”—Wayne Huizenga
“The advantage of having only one child is that you always know who did it.”
- Erma Bombeck.
“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
"Families are like fudge ... mostly sweet with a few nuts." - Unknown
“Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.”—Barbara Delinsky
“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 is just accident...They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.”
- Marsha Norman
“My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.”—Spike Milligan
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.”—Ogden Nash
“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
“If your family tree does not fork, you might be a redneck.”
- Jeff Foxworthy.
“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”
- Cary Grant.
“Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.”—Gene Perret
“Respect your parents. These guys pay for your internet.”—Unknown
“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.”
- Wayne H
“What strange creatures brothers are!”—Jane Austen
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