Family Reunion

By ancestry, I was born to rule. - Nelson Mandela

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. - Unknown

A thankful heart is the parent of all virtues. - Cicero

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. - Aristotle

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father. - Greg Norman

Acting is just a way of making a living; the family is life. - Denzel Washington

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. - WC Fields

Do not remove the ancient landmark that your ancestors set up. - Bible

I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family. - Selena Gomez

Work is the least important thing and family is the most important. - Jerry Seinfeld

If you want chicken soup, you've got to put a chicken in the pot. - Joe Segal

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head. - Martin Mull

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. - John Ciardi

No Chinese Catholics are allowed to worship ancestors in their familial temples. - Pope Clement XI

It is a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. - Plutarch

Is this chicken or is this fish? I know it's tuna but it says chicken of the sea. - Jessica Simpson

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. - Laurence J Peter

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. - Clarence Darrow

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children. - Dave Barry

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. - George Carlin

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
when they think that their children are naive. - Ogden Nash

Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one. - Howard K. Nixon

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. - Ellen Glasgow

My brother thinks he's a chicken.
We don't talk him out of it because we need the eggs. - Groucho Marx

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie. - Jimmy Fallon

The chicken probably came before the egg because it is hard to imagine God wanting to sit on an egg. - Unknown

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan

My family was so poor that if I hadn't been born a boy, I wouldn't of had anything to play with. - Rodney Dangerfield

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

All dentists talk while they work. They have inherited this from their professional ancestors, the barbers. - Mark Twain

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. - Phyllis Diller

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers. - Patrick Chan

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams. - John Muir

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. - Jane Howard

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right path, the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin. - Dave Attell

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father’s or mother's life? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. - Oscar Wilde