Generations Past And Present

People like to trace their ancestry. - Richard Dawkins

You live as long as you are remembered. - Russian Proverb

The family is the nucleus of civilization. - William Durant

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

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

There is no place like home - except Grandma's. - Unknown

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. - Jesus Christ

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. - John J. Plomp

Do not remove the ancient landmark that your ancestors set up. - Bible

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

Family means putting your arms around each other and being there. - Barbara Bush

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

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

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

Insomnia: a contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents. - Shannon Fife

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake. - Karlie Kloss

It is a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. - Plutarch

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

I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

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

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. - Clarence Darrow

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

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

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato - the best part of him is underground. - Henry Cooper

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn ... betrays its ancestor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mothers are like glue, Even when you can't see them, they're still holding the family together. - Susan Gale

My parents live in a retirement community, which is basically a minimum-security prison with a golf course. - Joel Warshaw

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness. - Evangeline Lilly

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

Mule: 1. An animal that is stubbornly backward about going forward; 2. An animal who boasts that his ancestors were horses. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. - Mark Batterson

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. - Gaius S. Crispus

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 ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them. - Thomas Jefferson