Gene Lifeguard

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

People like to trace their ancestry. - Richard Dawkins

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. - Aristotle

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

Besmooch the family name in the eyes of the community. - Archie Bunker

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

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. - Erma Bombeck

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

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

Work is the least important thing and family is the most important. - Jerry Seinfeld

To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world. - Unknown

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

You can't choose your ancestors, and neither can your descendants. - Unknown

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

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

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. - Sidney Altman

The meek shall inherit the world, but they'll never increase market share. - William G McGowan

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations. - Freya Stark

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here. - Bill Watterson

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

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. - Meryl Streep

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

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see you all day and now the day was complete. - Marcy DeMaree

I don't know who my grandfather was, I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. - Abraham Lincoln

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

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. - Gail L. Buckley

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - George Burns

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

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

Children despise their parents until the age of forty, when they suddenly become just like them, thus preserving the system. - Quentin Crewe

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind. - Steven Pinker

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

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

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. - Marie Curie