Holding His Own Portraits

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

Ancestry is a hereditary condition. - Unknown

People like to trace their ancestry. - Richard Dawkins

He flourishes with hereditary honors. - Latin Proverb

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

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

Aren't most of you descended from pirates? - Prince Philip

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

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. - Mitch Albom

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. - Jesus Christ

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

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

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

Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to people better than you are. - John G. Pollard

Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family. - Homer Simpson

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

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

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

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. - Daniel J. Boorstin

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

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

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. - Thomas Paine

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

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

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

Golden Age: When the kids are too old to need baby-sitters and too young to borrow the family car - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There's a lot of baggage that comes along with our family, but it's Louis Vuitton baggage. - Kim Kardashian

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

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

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

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. - Thomas Overbury

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

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams, and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family. - Reed Markham

I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place. - Tyson Fury

Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood. - Phyllis Diller

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

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

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. - Stephen Covey