Generations Past And Present

Friends are the family you choose. - Jennifer Aniston

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

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. - Unknown

My parents put a live teddy bear in my crib. - Woody Allen

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

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

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

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

Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to people better than you are. - John G. Pollard

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

Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family. - Homer Simpson

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. - Rodney Dangerfield

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy

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

I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. - Sonia Sanchez

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

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

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

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
when they think that their children are naive. - Ogden Nash

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

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

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. - Bertrand Russell

Every family story has 1,000 other stories contained within it, like an unending series of nesting dolls. - Alison Pick

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. - Phyllis Diller

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde

My parents have been visiting me for a few days. I just dropped them off at the airport. They leave tomorrow. - Margaret Smith

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

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

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. - Samuel Johnson

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right path, the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

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

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father’s or mother's life? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad. - Behati Prinsloo

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kids' therapy. - Michelle Pfeiffer

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

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