Family Reunion

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

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. - Sir John Bowring

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. - Unknown

The family is the nucleus of civilization. - William Durant

The rich man has more relations than he knows. - French Proverb

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world. - Bill Watterson

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

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents. - George Clooney

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you. - Dick Cavett

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

Happiness is having a large, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio. - Rodney Dangerfield

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy

We do not inherit the earth from our parents. We borrow it from our children. - Unknown

Live so you won't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

If we stand tall, it's because we stand on the shoulders of many ancestors. - Unknown

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. - Fred Allen

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

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one. - Diane Lane

I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. - Kay Robertson

My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake. - Karlie Kloss

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. - Desmond Tutu

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

No man can cause more grief than one clinging blindly to the voices of his ancestors. - William Faulkner

Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time. - Grant Cardone

The family you came from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. - Ring Lardner

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. - Meryl Streep

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

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it. - Kim Hubbard

Any living cell carries within it the experiences of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. - Max Delbrook

I don't think he's gonna come Edith. He just ain't got none of that, waddya call, family unconscious. - Archie Bunker

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue

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

I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus. - Shawn Johnson

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus. - Sy Montgomery

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended - and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. - Robert Frost

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

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. - Antonin Scalia

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. - Oscar Wilde