“Children really can brighten up a house, because they never turn the lights off.”
- Ralph Bus.
“The more you’re loving and understanding, the more your kids will sing.”
- Maxime Lagacé
"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
"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
“I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.”
- Rodney Dangerfield
“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.
“The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.”
- Robert Brault
“It was nice growing up with someone like you—someone to lean on, someone to count on…someone to tell on!”—Unknown
“My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.”—Spike Milligan
“What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.”—Esther Friesner
"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
“Parents must get across the idea that “I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.”—Amy Vanderbilt
“You can kid the world, but not your sister.”—Charlotte Gray
“There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent!”
― Rossana Condoleo
“I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.”
- Ugo Betti
“Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie, not perfect but who’s complaining?”
- Robert Brault.
“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.
"Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space." - Evan Esar
“I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance—waiting for the bathroom.”—Bob Hope
“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 family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." - Ogden Nash
“It’s not easy being a mom. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”—Betty White
"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
"Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old, it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother that does." - J. Norman Collie
“The advantage of having only one child is that you always know who did it.”
- Erma Bombeck.
“Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.”
- Shailene Woodley.
“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
“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern…like bad wallpaper.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche.
“Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.”
- Earl Wilson.
“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”—Phyllis Diller