~ Family and Ancestry Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Abraham Lincoln

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Victor Hugo

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.

Freya Stark

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I have called the principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.

Charles Darwin

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is little more than chairman at most of the entertainment committee.

Ashley Montagu

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter de Vries