Holding His Own Portraits

Ancestry is a hereditary condition. - Unknown

Something bad has befelt the family. - Archie Bunker

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

The rich man has more relations than he knows. - French Proverb

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

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children. - Sam Levenson

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

I would give everything if I could only keep my family. - Johnny Depp

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. - Erma Bombeck

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights. - J Paul Getty

Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success. - Zig Ziglar

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

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. - Mother Teresa

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

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

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. - John Ciardi

We do not inherit the earth from our parents. We borrow it from our children. - Unknown

Those who inherit fortunes are often more troublesome than those who make them. - African Saying

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. - Fred Allen

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

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. - Desmond Tutu

Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time. - Grant Cardone

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. - Bill Keane

There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children - one is roots, and the other, wings. - Hodding S. Carter

There's a lot of baggage that comes along with our family, but it's Louis Vuitton baggage. - Kim Kardashian

The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. - Voltaire

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. - Gail L. Buckley

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. - Thomas Overbury

Hello. I don't believe we have been introduced. R2-D2? A pleasure to meet you. I am C-3PO, Human-Cyborg Relations. - C-3PO

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams. - John Muir

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 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

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

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

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 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

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. - Oscar Wilde