Subject: Family (Page 13)

You know a man is a redneck if his mama keeps a spit-can on the ironin' board.

(1926 – 1998) American country comedian

I learned in my car that I could not have children; it was the day that I locked my keys in my car with the engine running.

(1964 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

I get on very well with my parents, give or take my mother.

English comedian & actor

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Even before the kids are born, you’ve got to make these decisions; if it’s a boy, do we get him circumcised?… if it’s a girl, do we keep her?

(1965 – 2010) American stand-up comedian & television personality

I can’t have kids because I have white couches.

(1953 – ) American comedian, writer & actor

Dressing a baby is like putting an octopus into a string bag, making sure none of the arms hang out.

(1951 – ) British writer

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents’ shortcomings.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had… so he sent me to a girls school.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

Teaching wasn’t that bad – except for the kids.

comedian

I’ve got two children; to be honest I always wanted three children; now I’ve got two, I only want one.

(1968 – ) English comedian & actor

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Do not nurse a kid who wears braces.

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

(1940 – 1994) Puerto Rican actor

If in America you are what you drive, then in Parentland, you are what you push.

(1957 – ) American comedian, actor & writer

Of all the people whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

(1901 – 1978) anthropologist

A teen-ager out of sight is like a kite in the clouds; even though you can’t see it you feel the tug on the string.

writer

Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.

(1974 – ) American comedian

I’d be the only dad keeping his kids home from school to teach me how to get to the next level on a video game.

comedian

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice; for ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

(1961 – ) American stand-up comedian