Generations Past And Present

He flourishes with hereditary honors. - Latin Proverb

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

There's nobody stronger than a single parent. - Unknown

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children. - Sam Levenson

Besmooch the family name in the eyes of the community. - Archie Bunker

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

Family is not an important thing - it's everything. - Michael J. Fox

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

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. - Erma Bombeck

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

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

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

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

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

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

The meek shall inherit the world, but they'll never increase market share. - William G McGowan

As a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. - Buddy Hackett

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

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. - Dave Barry

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. - Florence King

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

I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push. - Rodney Dangerfield

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. - Lewis Grizzard

The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. - Lane Olinghouse

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

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

What is a family except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catchall drawer in the kitchen. - Joyce C Oates

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

Life's golden age is when the children are too old to need babysitters and too young to borrow the family car. - Unknown

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

As a family we couldn't decide whether to have Grandma buried or cremated, so in the end we decided to let her live. - Gary Delaney

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

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

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

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. - Leo Tolstoy

I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion, and a lot of laughter. That's really what fills my tank. - Anna Eshoo

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'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad. - Behati Prinsloo

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. - Oscar Wilde