Generations Past And Present

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

Ancestry is a hereditary condition. - Unknown

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. - Unknown

The rich man has more relations than he knows. - French Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do not remove the ancient landmark that your ancestors set up. - Bible

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

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard. - Robin Williams

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head. - Martin Mull

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

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations. - Freya Stark

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. - Clarence Darrow

I only hope when I have my own family that every day I see a little more of my father in me. - Keith Urban

I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. - Kate Flannery

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie. - Jimmy Fallon

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

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

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn ... betrays its ancestor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan

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

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

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

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

My parents have been visiting me for a few days. I just dropped them off at the airport. They leave tomorrow. - Margaret Smith

I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers. - Patrick Chan

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

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

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

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell

The family should be a place where each new human being can have an early atmosphere conducive to the development of constructive creativity. - Edith Schaeffer

I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing. - Tim Allen

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

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