Generations Past And Present

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

The family is the nucleus of civilization. - William Durant

We are the people our parents warned us about. - Jimmy Buffett

Take it from me, parents just don't understand. - Will Smith

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

There's no such thing as fun for the whole family. - Jerry Seinfeld

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

The two things children wear out are clothes and parents. - Unknown

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

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father. - Greg Norman

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

I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family. - Selena Gomez

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

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

Happiness is having a large, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them. - Rita Rudner

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. - Dave Barry

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

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

My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose your ancestors carefully. - Bertrand Russell

No man can cause more grief than one clinging blindly to the voices of his ancestors. - William Faulkner

To lose one parent may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. - Oscar Wilde

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. - George Carlin

I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. - Kate Flannery

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

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

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

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. - Helen Keller

There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA. - Hendrik Poinar

What is a family except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catchall drawer in the kitchen. - Joyce C Oates

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard P Feynman

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

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue

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

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

With the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital. - Stephen Covey

Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. - Stephen Covey

If you think that nobility consists of having sixteen ancestors rather than merit, great Prince, then you may - and you may also praise or condemn me. - Franz Grillparzer