Gene Lifeguard

It's all in the genes. - Unknown

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

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. - Sir John Bowring

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers. - Thomas Jefferson

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. - Aristotle

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

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

The presidency is temporary, but the family is permanent. - Yvonne de Gaulle

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

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

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

Misers aren't fun to live with, but they make wonderful ancestors. - Unknown

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy

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

No Chinese Catholics are allowed to worship ancestors in their familial temples. - Pope Clement XI

It is a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. - Plutarch

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here. - Bill Watterson

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. - Laurence J Peter

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

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. - Meryl Streep

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

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

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

My family was so poor that if I hadn't been born a boy, I wouldn't of had anything to play with. - Rodney Dangerfield

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. - Bertrand Russell

I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths. - Kenneth Cole

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

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. - Thomas Overbury

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

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

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

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

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

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