Woodpecker Trio

Ancestry is a hereditary condition. - Unknown

People like to trace their ancestry. - Richard Dawkins

My parents put a live teddy bear in my crib. - Woody Allen

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

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

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

Take it from me, parents just don't understand. - Will Smith

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

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

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. - Rodney Dangerfield

Grandma, thank you for being my anchor in this stormy sea of life. - Unknown

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

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

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. - Yogi Berra

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. - Laurence J Peter

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

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. - Anita Baker

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash

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

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

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue. - Peter Gallagher

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance. - Suze Orman

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde

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

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. - Lin-Chi

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

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual. - Stephen Covey

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

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. - Jane Howard

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. - Joseph Addison

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

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

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

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 have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. - Marie Curie

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

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

If you think that nobility consists of having sixteen ancestors rather than merit, great Prince, then you may - and you may also praise or condemn me. - Franz Grillparzer