Generations Past And Present

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

Friends are the family you choose. - Jennifer Aniston

You live as long as you are remembered. - Russian Proverb

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. - Unknown

A thankful heart is the parent of all virtues. - Cicero

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

The presidency is temporary, but the family is permanent. - Yvonne de Gaulle

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

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

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

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. - Mother Teresa

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

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio. - Rodney Dangerfield

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy

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

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

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

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

To lose one parent may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. - Oscar Wilde

Genetic Engineering: A recent attempt to formalize what farmers have been doing all along. - Unknown

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. - Bill Keane

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

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

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

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

Every family story has 1,000 other stories contained within it, like an unending series of nesting dolls. - Alison Pick

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

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. - Phyllis Diller

I don't think he's gonna come Edith. He just ain't got none of that, waddya call, family unconscious. - Archie Bunker

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue

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 family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. - Dodie Smith

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. - Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

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

Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, "Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?" - Alan Alda