Generations Past And Present

Ancestry is a hereditary condition. - Unknown

People like to trace their ancestry. - Richard Dawkins

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

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

The family is the nucleus of civilization. - William Durant

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world. - Bill Watterson

Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love. - Unknown

Dishtemper: What family members suffer from after dinner - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The two things children wear out are clothes and parents. - Unknown

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father. - Greg Norman

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights. - J Paul Getty

Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success. - Zig Ziglar

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

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you. - Dick Cavett

You can't choose your ancestors, and neither can your descendants. - Unknown

Future generations may well ask themselves, what were our parents thinking? - Al Gore

People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic. - Seth Godin

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

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

Spoiled Rotten: What the kids become after as little as 15 minutes with Grandma - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one. - Diane Lane

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

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

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

He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. - Thomas Fuller

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

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

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

Mothers are like glue, Even when you can't see them, they're still holding the family together. - Susan Gale

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

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

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus. - Sy Montgomery

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

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

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kids' therapy. - Michelle Pfeiffer

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