Generations Past And Present

He flourishes with hereditary honors. - Latin Proverb

The family is the nucleus of civilization. - William Durant

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

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. - Voltaire

There's no such thing as fun for the whole family. - Jerry Seinfeld

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

Acting is just a way of making a living; the family is life. - Denzel Washington

Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to people better than you are. - John G. Pollard

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

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

Family means putting your arms around each other and being there. - Barbara Bush

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

Insomnia: a contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents. - Shannon Fife

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

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

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

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. - George Carlin

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

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer. - Bobby Flay

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

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

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

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

Family, religion, friendship... these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Mr. Burns

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. - Helen Keller

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

Mule: 1. An animal that is stubbornly backward about going forward; 2. An animal who boasts that his ancestors were horses. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

We are all omnibuses in which our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them sticks his head out and embarrasses us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. - Richard B. Sheridan

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. - Gaius S. Crispus

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father’s or mother's life? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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