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. Ancestry is a hereditary condition. - Unknown Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. - Voltaire Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. - Mitch Albom The presidency is temporary, but the family is permanent. - Yvonne de Gaulle Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to people better than you are. - John G. Pollard Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success. - Zig Ziglar Family means putting your arms around each other and being there. - Barbara Bush Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head. - Martin Mull I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio. - Rodney Dangerfield I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. - Emo Philips People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic. - Seth Godin We do not inherit the earth from our parents. We borrow it from our children. - Unknown Spoiled Rotten: What the kids become after as little as 15 minutes with Grandma - Daffynitions joe-ks.com I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. - Fred Allen If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. - Florence King Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time. - Grant Cardone He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. - Thomas Fuller Genetic Engineering: A recent attempt to formalize what farmers have been doing all along. - Unknown Armor: 1. A knight gown; 2. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. - Thomas J. Barnardo I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. - Kate Flannery The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. - Voltaire A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato - the best part of him is underground. - Henry Cooper Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue. - Peter Gallagher Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. - Gail L. Buckley Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - George Burns Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. - Thomas Overbury Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. - Divyanka Tripathi 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 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 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 If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions. - Stephen Covey What ya eat ain't got nuttin' to do with how old ya are. That all depends on your ancestors. It's what they call a matter of heresy. - Archie Bunker 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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