Generations Past And Present

Something bad has befelt the family. - Archie Bunker

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

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

I would give everything if I could only keep my family. - Johnny Depp

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind. - The Bible

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

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. - Mark Twain

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. - WC Fields

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

Kidnapping: The short snatches of rest a parent gets when baby sleeps - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. - Sonia Sanchez

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them. - Rita Rudner

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

I believe in moderation. I work on genealogy only on days that end in 'y'. - Richard Thiesen

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. - Daniel Webster

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

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

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

No man can cause more grief than one clinging blindly to the voices of his ancestors. - William Faulkner

My parents always told me I could do anything, but never told me how long it would take. - Rita Rudner

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

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

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. - Unknown

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

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

My parents live in a retirement community, which is basically a minimum-security prison with a golf course. - Joel Warshaw

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates

There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA. - Hendrik Poinar

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

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

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

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

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy. - Nicolas Cage

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

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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