Car Roots

Ancestry is a hereditary condition. - Unknown

People like to trace their ancestry. - Richard Dawkins

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

A root is a flower that disdains fame. - Kahlil Gibran

A man had better wear out than rust out. - Richard Cumberland

The deep roots never doubt spring will come. - Marty Rubin

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. - Shel Silverstein

If you hate where you are, move - you are not a tree. - Unknown

The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan

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

Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built. - Henry Ford

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. - Erma Bombeck

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

You should never have more children than you have car windows. - Erma Bombeck

I had to stop driving my car for a while - the tires got dizzy. - Steven Wright

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

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears, does it make a sound? - Unknown

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. - J.J. Walsh

Learn not to talk to me. You shake the tree, a leopard's going to fall out. - Kobe Bryant

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway

The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical. - Murray Walker

Don't let your dreams rust! Listen to your youthful bells ringing loud inside of you. - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone... when I came back the entire area was missing. - Steven Wright

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure enough, I couldn't see any forests. - Steven Wright

It's better to fall from a tree and break your back than to fall in love and break your heart. - African Proverb

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. - Alex Haley

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

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

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. - Edward Bulwer Lytton

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

For all of the fights I have had in my life, both on and off the ice, I have only been in the back of a cop car once. - Tie Domi

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner. - Ben Bergor

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, "I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out." - Steven Wright

Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money. - Cree Proverb

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest thing about man is his ability to transcend himself, his ancestry and his environment and to become what he dreams of being. - Tully C. Knoles

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving. - Steven Wright