“Never let an angry sister comb your hair.”
- Patricia McCann
“To a small child, the perfect grandad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word “boo”.—Robert Breault
“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
“I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
- Mary Karr
“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
“Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.”—Gene Perret
“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”—Lewis Mumford
“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
“I know family comes first, but shouldn’t that mean after breakfast?”
- Jeff Lindsay.
“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”—Sam Levenson
"If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion." - Ashleigh Brilliant
“The more you’re loving and understanding, the more your kids will sing.”
- Maxime Lagacé
“I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.”
- Ugo Betti
“If you don’t annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don’t love her anymore.”—Pearl Cleage
“If your family tree does not fork, you might be a redneck.”
- Jeff Foxworthy.
“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
“Respect your parents. These guys pay for your internet.”—Unknown
“As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.”—Prince William
“Family is a blessing. Just keep saying that when you are irritated by something a family member says.”
- Marcelina Hardy
“Everyone knows that if you’ve got a brother, you’re going to fight.”—Liam Gallagher
"Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old, it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother that does." - J. Norman Collie
“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
- Erma Bombeck
“Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.”—Pam Brown
“The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.”—George Carlin
"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
“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
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.”—Ogden Nash
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”—George Burns
“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.”
- Sam Levenson
“Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can’t.”—Unknown
