Jane Wagner Quotes

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and I like to explore how people within them try to connect, be it through love, duty, or circumstance.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

If you are going through something with one of your parents, you know that there is this feeling inside you constantly that something is wrong. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn't matter to you or you don't care, the truth of the matter is that you do, because they are your parents and you love them.

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

In every family, people fight, don't talk and then make amends.

I find that relationships between kids and parents are very interesting.

Mother, sister, daughter, wife, cousins - they are a part of your everyday life. You interact with them, communicate, altercate and that they would have an influence on your everyday life is obvious.

Every family goes through ups and downs. You may want a relationship with someone, which your family may not approve of but they don't stop loving you.

Hello, Grace's parents. I'm Grace's boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in your daughter's mouth.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.

I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.

My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together.

The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.

The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.

Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.

Matt 13:57. Then Jesus told them, 'A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his own family.' The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.