Generations Past And Present

By ancestry, I was born to rule. - Nelson Mandela

Friends are the family you choose. - Jennifer Aniston

Something bad has befelt the family. - Archie Bunker

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

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

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

Anybody can make history, only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. - Etheridge Knight

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

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

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

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

I think the family was from Hungaria. (talking about Noah's Ark) - Archie Bunker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My parents always told me I could do anything, but never told me how long it would take. - Rita Rudner

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. - Laurence J Peter

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children. - Dave Barry

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. - Thomas J. Barnardo

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer. - Bobby Flay

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

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance. - Suze Orman

Family, religion, friendship... these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Mr. Burns

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

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

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

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

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

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