Generations Past And Present

Friends are the family you choose. - Jennifer Aniston

People like to trace their ancestry. - Richard Dawkins

He flourishes with hereditary honors. - Latin Proverb

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

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

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

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents. - George Clooney

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

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. - Herbert Hoover

To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't know who my grandfather was, I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. - Abraham Lincoln

All his successors gone before him have done’t; and all his ancestors that come after him may. - William Shakespeare

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

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

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. - Phyllis Diller

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

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

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

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

Children despise their parents until the age of forty, when they suddenly become just like them, thus preserving the system. - Quentin Crewe

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

I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place. - Tyson Fury

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

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

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

Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood. - Phyllis Diller

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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