Holding His Own Portraits

Friends are the family you choose. - Jennifer Aniston

People like to trace their ancestry. - Richard Dawkins

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

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

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. - George Santayana

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

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. - Etheridge Knight

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

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

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

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

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard. - Robin Williams

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. - Sidney Altman

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

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

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. - Thomas J. Barnardo

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

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

All his successors gone before him have done’t; and all his ancestors that come after him may. - William Shakespeare

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

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

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. - Bertrand Russell

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

Hello. I don't believe we have been introduced. R2-D2? A pleasure to meet you. I am C-3PO, Human-Cyborg Relations. - C-3PO

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary: when her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief. - Oscar Wilde

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. - Divyanka Tripathi

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

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

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

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life. - Stephen Covey

I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing. - Tim Allen

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