Family Ties

Ancestry is a hereditary condition. - Unknown

Patience is a vital trait of the great athlete. - Unknown

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

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

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

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to. - Gypsy Rose Lee

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. - Edward Dahlberg

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

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard. - Robin Williams

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

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. - Sidney Altman

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

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations. - Freya Stark

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. - Thomas Paine

The family you came from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. - Ring Lardner

My parents always told me I could do anything, but never told me how long it would take. - Rita Rudner

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

He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. - Thomas Fuller

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

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

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

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer. - Bobby Flay

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it. - Kim Hubbard

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

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

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

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

I don't think he's gonna come Edith. He just ain't got none of that, waddya call, family unconscious. - Archie Bunker

Life's golden age is when the children are too old to need babysitters and too young to borrow the family car. - Unknown

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

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. - Dodie Smith

We are all omnibuses in which our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them sticks his head out and embarrasses us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended - and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. - Robert Frost

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

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father’s or mother's life? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kids' therapy. - Michelle Pfeiffer