Subject: Family

Toddlers Are A**holes: It’s Not Your Fault

Regarding my family, I’m the youngest of three; my parents are both older.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

Grandparents: The people who think your children are wonderful even though they’re sure you’re not raising them right.

The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.

American free-lance writer

My wife, she’s carrying our first child… he’s eight, the lazy little…

(1968 – ) English comedian & actor

I didn’t hate my mother; it was an accident!

(1940 – 1994) Puerto Rican actor

Have you ever thought about registering as a sex offender just so your friends won’t bring their kids over to your house?

(1967 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

Any child who chatters nonstop at home will adamantly refuse to utter a word when requested to demonstrate for an audience.

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

writer

When Mel told his Jewish mother he was marrying an Italian girl, she said: ‘Bring her over; I’ll be in the kitchen—with my head in the oven.‘

(1931 – 2005) American actor

With the birth of a child you lose two novels.

(1955 – ) Scottish writer

You might be a redneck if… your dad walks you to school because you’re in the same grade.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Without identical twins, you’ll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother.

(1957 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & screenwriter

I was at the breakfast table this morning and I read in the newspaper that more and more adults are living at home with their parents; that surprised me, I was like “Mom did you read this?”

(1957 – ) American comedian

I don’t blame my parents for my dysfunctions… I blame their parents.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

Her mother was a cultivated women… she was born in a greenhouse.

(1918 – 2002) Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet & playwright

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn’t have to pay the extra fifty cents the adults had to pay.

(1947 – ) basketball player, coach & actor

Then we figured out we could just park them in front of the TV; that's how I was raised and I turned out TV.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

The only thing I said to my parents when I was a teenager was “Hang up, I got it!”

comedian, writer, actor & producer

Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child – if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer