Subject: Family (Page 4)

Sh*tty Mom: The Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I’m much more concerned to know who his grandson will be.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

I went to the cinema, and the prices were: Adults $5.00, children $2.50; so I said, “Give me two boys and a girl.”

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform.

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

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

My grandad has a chair in his shower which makes him feel old, so in order to feel young he sits on it backwards like a cool teacher giving an assembly about drugs.

(1991 – ) English stand-up comedian

My dad has a weird hobby; he collects empty bottles… which sounds so much better than “alcoholic.”

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round.

(1935 – ) British author

Never let a child wearing Superman pajamas sleep on the top bunk.

He’s going around putting little covers over the electrical outlets and all that stuff, and I’m like, ‘How the kids going to learn about electricity, huh?’

(1964 – ) American writer, stand-up comedian, actress, television host

When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove Illinois; when I was twelve, I found them.

(1956 – ) American comedian

For my sister’s 50th birthday, I sent her a singing mammogram.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

(1917 – 1998) author, critic, animal rights activist

You might be a redneck if… your dad’s cell number has nothing to do with a telephone.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

I like my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I don’t blame my parents for my dysfunctions… I blame their parents.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

[A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own psychoanalysis.

(1941 – 2012) American novelist, producer, screenwriter & director

You might be a redneck if… your during your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

You know, it was only after my father showed me what I would inherit that I struggled to keep him alive.

(1967 – ) English comedian

Children always take the line of most persistence.

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