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My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

Grammatical Error: When Grandma screws up - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The family is the nucleus of civilization. - William Durant

My parents put a live teddy bear in my crib. - Woody Allen

Beware of men who flourish with hereditary honors. - Latin Proverb

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind. - The Bible

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

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

Family Tree: The only tree whose branches seek the shelter of its roots - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

Live so you won't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

If we stand tall, it's because we stand on the shoulders of many ancestors. - Unknown

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

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. - Oscar Wilde

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children. - Dave Barry

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

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
when they think that their children are naive. - Ogden Nash

Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one. - Howard K. Nixon

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

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. - Anita Baker

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

The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. - Voltaire

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

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue. - Peter Gallagher

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

Any living cell carries within it the experiences of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. - Max Delbrook

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance. - Suze Orman

There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA. - Hendrik Poinar

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

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue

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

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

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy. - Nicolas Cage

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

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind. - Steven Pinker

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

Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. - Stephen Covey