Melissa Rivers Quotes

I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.

Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

I couldn't really relate much to my younger sister, because she was born in 1992, and I was born in 1986. And then my older sister, we just didn't get on that much. Although we bonded over hating our stepdad.

I grew up in a family of nine kids.

When my younger sisters were born, I was in high school and college. I was at my mom's all the time but never changed them or fed them.

I grew up as one of six kids.

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.

When I had a kid and I went through my drama and situation, I respected my father more because it kinda made me understand what he went through with me.

'Good Luck Charlie' is different from all the other Disney Channel shows because it's so relatable. Everything that happens on the show can happen to you and your family.

I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.

Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.

I wasn't funny. My brother was the funny one in the family.

As a parent, you go through a whole lot of really tough things, and you kind of want other parents to experience those tough things as payback - especially when it's your brother.

I grew up in a family with five kids.

I have a lot of brothers and male cousins. I grew up in an informal, jokey environment.

It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!

When you get a little bit older, you're always trying to do something different from your siblings.

I don't know how it is with other people's relationships, but my wife is always much more tired than me because she works much harder looking after the children, which is an endless battle - a lot of it is battling with them to stop battling with each other.

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.