Thursday, August 13, 2020

Family

"I come from a long line of stereotypes." - Phil Wang

"There is one listener in every family." - Richard Van Camp

"Families: you can't really kill them.  Usually." - S. A. Cosby

"Jewish grandmothers, Black grandmothers, Italian grandmothers, all sing the same song." - Cheryl M. Head

"Weddings: Amateur theatricals organized by the temporarily insane." - Ellen Formanek Tepper 

"I'm not raising children. I'm raising adults." - Marian Robinson

"My mother was a car and we lost her in a terrible space rotary accident." - Suzanne Palmer
 
 "For a groovy parent trains a groovy child, and the groovy child must be father of a groovy man." - The Saturday Review, January 9, 1864.

"The right bridal boots are the most important part of any marriage. I learned this too late and am pretty sure that's why I'm divorced." -Lia Matera

"Parents never grow up." - Lorrie B. Potters

"It has occurred to me that being the first person ever to have had a child, I have a certain duty to report, from time time, on what that unique circumstance involves." -John Diamond, slightly revised

They didn't have to be funny — they were father jokes.” ― Terry Pratchett,

"There are no conflict-free engagement rings." - Terri Weiner

"The handy gene is brutally recessive."  - Mike Rowe

"It's not that you can't go home again.  It's that most people know better." - Daniel Pinkwater

“Parents own the children.” - Rand Paul

“Some people are born where they belong, and some have to find their way there. There’s no difference after that.” - Thomas Perry

"Relationships with parents are best run on a need-to-know basis." - Dan Savage

"This is fakery. If they care at all about their children or grandchildren, and sometimes I doubt that -- I think, you know, grandchildren now don't write a thank-you for the Christmas presents, they're walking on their pants with the cap on backwards listening to the enema man and Snoopy Snoopy Poop
Dogg, and they don't like them!” -Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson, March 7, 2011

“A dungeon in every castle.”-Susan Weiner and Nat Budin
 
“Of course your parents know which buttons to push.They installed them.”-Mitch Gallaher.

"In a family argument, if it turns out you are right - apologize at once." -Robert A. Heinlein

"The best thing I can say about my generation is that at least it isn't burdening its children with a tough act to follow." -Andrew Ward

"I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs." -Toni Price 

"'Shut up,' Daddy Explained." -Ring Lardner

"Parents once taught their children to talk; today children teach their parents to be quiet." -Talmud

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