Holding His Own Portraits

People like to trace their ancestry. - Richard Dawkins

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

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

Beware of men who flourish with hereditary honors. - Latin Proverb

There's no such thing as fun for the whole family. - Jerry Seinfeld

Family is not an important thing - it's everything. - Michael J. Fox

Anybody can make history, only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde

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

Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success. - Zig Ziglar

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. - Herbert Hoover

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. - Anthony Brandt

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

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

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

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

The meek may inherit the earth, but it's the grumpy who get promoted. - Father Mulcahy

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

The meek shall inherit the world, but they'll never increase market share. - William G McGowan

As a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. - Buddy Hackett

Those who inherit fortunes are often more troublesome than those who make them. - African Saying

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

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations. - Freya Stark

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. - Edmund Burke

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

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

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

I don't know who my grandfather was, I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. - Abraham Lincoln

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

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. - Alex Haley

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

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn ... betrays its ancestor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mothers are like glue, Even when you can't see them, they're still holding the family together. - Susan Gale

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

What is a family except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catchall drawer in the kitchen. - Joyce C Oates

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell

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