Holding His Own Portraits

Friends are the family you choose. - Jennifer Aniston

Ancestry is a hereditary condition. - Unknown

Something bad has befelt the family. - Archie Bunker

People like to trace their ancestry. - Richard Dawkins

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

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

An iron curtain has descended across the continent. - Winston Churchill

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to. - Gypsy Rose Lee

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights. - J Paul Getty

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

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. - Edward Dahlberg

I think the family was from Hungaria. (talking about Noah's Ark) - Archie Bunker

Misers aren't fun to live with, but they make wonderful ancestors. - Unknown

You can't choose your ancestors, and neither can your descendants. - Unknown

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. - Oscar Wilde

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

I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. - Sonia Sanchez

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. - H L Mencken

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

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit

I believe in moderation. I work on genealogy only on days that end in 'y'. - Richard Thiesen

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. - Florence King

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

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

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. - Oscar Wilde

He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. - Thomas Fuller

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

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. - Lewis Grizzard

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

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato - the best part of him is underground. - Henry Cooper

I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths. - Kenneth Cole

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

Family, religion, friendship... these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Mr. Burns

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. - Helen Keller

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. - Richard B. Sheridan

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

The greatest thing about man is his ability to transcend himself, his ancestry and his environment and to become what he dreams of being. - Tully C. Knoles

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death. - Martine Vermeulen

What ya eat ain't got nuttin' to do with how old ya are. That all depends on your ancestors. It's what they call a matter of heresy. - Archie Bunker

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien