"Why waste your money looking up your family tree?
Just go into politics and your opponents will do it for you."

Mark Twain

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

Abraham Lincoln

You live as long as you are remembered.

Russian Proverb

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

Oscar Wilde, Aphorisms

He who has no fools, knaves, or beggars in his family
was begot by a flash of lightning.

Old English Proverb

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

George Bernard Shaw

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors,
and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Helen Keller

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

Gail Lumet Buckley

On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery,
Nova Scotia: "Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102, The Good Die Young."

Alawyer's epitaph in England: "Sir John Strange Here lies
an honest lawyer, And that is Strange".

Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York: "Born 1903--Died 1942
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down. It was."

"In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery: "Here lies an Atheist: All dressed
up And no place to go."