Generations Past And Present

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. - Sir John Bowring

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. - Aristotle

There's nobody stronger than a single parent. - Unknown

Beware of men who flourish with hereditary honors. - Latin Proverb

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

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

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

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

People should find happiness in the little things, like family. - Amanda Bynes

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

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

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

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

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

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. - Daniel Webster

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

A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. - Unknown

I only hope when I have my own family that every day I see a little more of my father in me. - Keith Urban

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

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

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

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie. - Jimmy Fallon

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. - Kin Hubbard

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

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. - Unknown

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

All dentists talk while they work. They have inherited this from their professional ancestors, the barbers. - Mark Twain

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

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy. - Nicolas Cage

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

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.

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

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

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