A famous chess master was in the habit of taking his 5-year old son to matches in the hope of instilling a love of the game in the boy. At a tense moment in a championship game, the master reached out to move on of his knights. There's nobody stronger than a single parent. - Unknown Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love. - Unknown I failed to make the chess team because of my height. - Woody Allen 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 I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family. - Selena Gomez Grandma, thank you for being my anchor in this stormy sea of life. - Unknown I think the family was from Hungaria. (talking about Noah's Ark) - Archie Bunker You'd play me chess, about which I don't even know how to deal. - Archie Bunker Insomnia: a contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents. - Shannon Fife I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. - Oscar Wilde I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. - Sonia Sanchez If we stand tall, it's because we stand on the shoulders of many ancestors. - Unknown No Chinese Catholics are allowed to worship ancestors in their familial temples. - Pope Clement XI Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. - Robert Louis Stevenson My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake. - Karlie Kloss You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. - Desmond Tutu Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. - Daniel J. Boorstin It is a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. - Plutarch Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time. - Grant Cardone I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push. - Rodney Dangerfield We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. - Bill Keane I only hope when I have my own family that every day I see a little more of my father in me. - Keith Urban The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. - Lane Olinghouse The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan 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 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde What is a family except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catchall drawer in the kitchen. - Joyce C Oates A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. - Jane Howard The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family. - Reed Markham Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. - Martha Stewart Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right path, the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. - Gaius S. Crispus Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death. - Martine Vermeulen 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 With the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital. - Stephen Covey see also Family Section Camel Pumps Chain Mail Cops Beating A Black Man in NYC Excalibutter How Russians Play Chess Round Table |
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