Subject: Family » Parents

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

comedian, writer, actor & producer
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet
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My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

(1942 – ) Scottish comedian, musician & actor
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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they’ll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist
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When I was kidnapped my parents snapped into action… they rented out my room.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Family Parents Self Situations

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.

(1936 – ) television talk show host
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… without embarrassing parents there’d be no psychology.

(1955 – ) American actor, comedian, producer, director & singer
Family Parents TV/Movie Quotes

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist
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I’ve noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell you the next stage is worse.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
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The same parent who tells you it’s time to find yourself will also tell you to get lost.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine
Family Parents

I read somewhere that 26 is too old to still live with your parents; it was on a note, in my room.

comedian
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My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor
Family Parents Self Understanding

Adolescence is that period in a kid’s life when parents become more difficult.

(1941 – ) American actor
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Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children; they don’t fulfill the promise of their early years.

(1905 – 2000) English writer
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I don’t blame my parents for my dysfunctions… I blame their parents.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor
Family Parents

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn’t because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor
Children Family Parents

When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

(1956 – ) American comedian
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We kept Mommy on a pedestal… it was the only way we could keep Daddy off her. – of life in a family with 12 children

(1946 – ) singer, songwriter, author & actress
Family Parents

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty, and that’s the law.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor
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Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

(1900 – 1944) French aristocrat, writer, poet & pioneering aviator
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