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Family
(Page 18)
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers.
Calvin Trillin
(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist
Family
Food/Drink
Mothers
Also Tracy Ullman
Leftovers
Did you ever meet a mother who’s complained that her child phoned her too often… me neither.
Maureen Lipman
(1946 – ) British actress, columnist & comedian
Children
Communication
Family
Mothers
Telephone
[Charles Dickens] was the bravest man who ever lived; he fathered ten children before they became tax deductions.
W.C. Fields
(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer
Children
Family
Money
Taxes
In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
Robert Benchley
(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist
Children
Family
Bathrooms
Father: An ATM provided by nature.
Anonymous
Definitions
Family
Fathers
I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia; let them walk to school like I did!
‘Yogi' Berra
(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Books
Children
Yogi-isms
Encyclopedias
There’s a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there’s a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Roseanne Barr
(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer
Family
Mothers
People
Women
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz
(1950 – ) writer & humorist
Characteristics
Children
Sticky
A balanced meal is whatever stays on the spoon en route to a baby’s mouth.
Kathy Lette
(1958 – ) Australian author
Children
Family
Food/Drink
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
Charlie Brown
cartoon character,
Peanuts
, Charles Schulz (1922 – 2000) cartoonist
Family
Sisters
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.
Ray Romano
(1957 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & screenwriter
Children
Family
On raising twins
Raising kids is like being pecked to death by a chicken.
Anonymous
Children
Expressions
Family
Baby: An inhabitant of Lapland.
Anonymous
Children
Definitions
Family
Babies
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Samuel Butler
(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist
Children
Family
Parents
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served nothing but leftovers… the original meal was never found.
Tracey Ullman
(1959 – ) British/American actress, comedian, director, author & screenwriter
Eating
Food/Drink
Mothers
Also Calvin Trillin
Leftovers
I love my family, but that is no reason why I need to acknowledge them in public.
Patricia Routledge
(1929 – ) English actress & singer
Family
TV/Movie Quotes
As Hyacinth Bucket in "Keeping Up Appearances"
I was born when my dad was 50; it’s weird growing up with a dad that much older than you… we’d go to the movies and we’re both getting discounts.
Gary Gulman
(1970 –) American stand-up comedian
Age
Family
Fathers
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot… but I always found them.
Rodney Dangerfield
(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor
Family
Parents
Places
Moving
You can learn many things from children… how much patience you have for instance.
Franklin Jones
(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist
Children
Education
Family
Learning
Patience
If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.
Ashleigh Brilliant
(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist
Family
Ghosts
First, Lord: No tattoos. May neither Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches.
Tina Fey
(1970 – ) American actress, comedian, writer & producer
Children
Family
From 'A Mother's Prayer for Her Child'
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