"My mother never breast fed me, she..." - Quote by Rodney Dangerfield
My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.
More by Rodney Dangerfield
“You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.”
“When we got married, the first thing my wife did was put everything under both names - hers and her mother's.”
“I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house...so he moved.”
More on Childhood
“Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably treated me like an adult, perhaps because they themselves were no spring chickens.”
“I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.”
“My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off.”