Subject: Family » Parents (Page 2)

Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in peace and quiet.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

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

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

Whatever happened to the good old days when kids was scared to death of their parents?

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

For the parent of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into innings.

(1907 – 1987) journalist & columnist

My parents divorced when I was one year old so I don't really remember any of the details, but luckily my mom does so she's been really helpful.

(1978 – ) American stand-up comedian, actress & writer

When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me… no one showed up.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

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

Many children threaten at times to run away from home — this is the only thing that keeps many parents going.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Little League baseball is a good thing ’cause it keeps the parents off the streets, and it keeps the kids out of the house!

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

… without embarrassing parents there’d be no psychology.

(1955 – ) American actor, comedian, producer, director & singer

As a child my parents said they believed in Santa Claus but that I didn’t exist.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

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

(1941 – ) American actor

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both seems like carelessness.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I think it’s a good idea; it keeps the parents off the streets.

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach

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

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

One year my parents got me Hide and Seek for Christmas.

(1968 – ) Welsh comedian

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years; it lasted forty-three years.

American stand-up comedian, television writer & actor

They waited until I was 20 to tell me I was adopted, and then last Christmas, they told me they were kidding.

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

My mother and father were really so poor they couldn’t afford to have any children, the lady next door had us.

(1933 – 1998) comedian & actor

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

You might be a redneck if… your parents met at a family reunion.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality