Subject: Family (Page 28)

What’s the toughest thing in a professional football game? … Its being the mother of the quarterback.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Go away kid, you bother me.

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

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

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

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

I told my kids, “Someday, you’ll have kids of your own.” One of them said, “So will you.”

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

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

I spent 10 minutes with her [my sister’s] four kids, and my ovaries tied themselves in a knot.

American comedian

I tell ya, it’s tough to save a buck. Right now I’m supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

A lot of people think kids say the darnedest things, but so would you if you had no education.

(1974 – ) Russian-born American comedian, writer & filmmaker

Marry your son when you will, but your daughter when you can.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

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

comedian, writer, actor & producer

He would kill his own mother just so that he could use her skin to make a drum to beat his own praises.

(1864 –1945) Anglo-Scottish socialite, author & wit

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

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

(1951 – ) British writer

It’s really hard being a single mom nowadays – which is why I don’t have children.

American-Mexican stand-up comedian & actress

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

Life: A span of time of which the first half is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

You’re a chimp off the old block.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Family Planning: The art of spacing your children the proper distance apart to keep you on the edge of financial disaster.