QuotaBillsPeople like to trace their ancestry. - Richard Dawkins
Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers. - Thomas Jefferson
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. - George Santayana
There's nobody stronger than a single parent. - Unknown
Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children. - Sam Levenson
I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. - Rodney Dangerfield
The presidency is temporary, but the family is permanent. - Yvonne de Gaulle
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. - Erma Bombeck
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. - Etheridge Knight
She's descended from a long line her mother listened to. - Gypsy Rose Lee
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. - WC Fields
I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents. - George Clooney
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. - Herbert Hoover
People should find happiness in the little things, like family. - Amanda Bynes
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. - Edward Dahlberg
I think the family was from Hungaria. (talking about Noah's Ark) - Archie Bunker
I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy
Future generations may well ask themselves, what were our parents thinking? - Al Gore
My parents are very good examples of Christians. They are big on forgiveness. - James Acaster
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. - Daniel J. Boorstin
No man can cause more grief than one clinging blindly to the voices of his ancestors. - William Faulkner
Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time. - Grant Cardone
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. - Thomas Paine
A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. - Unknown
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. - Hodding S. Carter
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
when they think that their children are naive. - Ogden Nash
I only hope when I have my own family that every day I see a little more of my father in me. - Keith Urban
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
All his successors gone before him have done’t; and all his ancestors that come after him may. - William Shakespeare
It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it. - Kin Hubbard
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard P Feynman
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. - Dodie Smith
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
Children despise their parents until the age of forty, when they suddenly become just like them, thus preserving the system. - Quentin Crewe
The greatest thing about man is his ability to transcend himself, his ancestry and his environment and to become what he dreams of being. - Tully C. Knoles
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
The family should be a place where each new human being can have an early atmosphere conducive to the development of constructive creativity. - Edith Schaeffer
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. - Oscar Wilde