Holding His Own Portraits

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

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

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. - Mitch Albom

Leading your family is a lot tougher than basketball. - Giannis Antetokounmpo

Besmooch the family name in the eyes of the community. - Archie Bunker

Family is not an important thing - it's everything. - Michael J. Fox

Dishtemper: What family members suffer from after dinner - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. - WC Fields

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. - Herbert Hoover

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

Work is the least important thing and family is the most important. - Jerry Seinfeld

I think the family was from Hungaria. (talking about Noah's Ark) - Archie Bunker

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

Family Tree: The only tree whose branches seek the shelter of its roots - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. - Oscar Wilde

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

I believe in moderation. I work on genealogy only on days that end in 'y'. - Richard Thiesen

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. - Florence King

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

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. - Oscar Wilde

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

Snaccident: Eating an entire pizza, box of chocolates, or family size bag of chips by mistake - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. - Lewis Grizzard

All his successors gone before him have done’t; and all his ancestors that come after him may. - William Shakespeare

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. - Alex Haley

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. - Richard B. Sheridan

I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place. - Tyson Fury

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

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. - Antonin Scalia

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

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. - Marie Curie