Great Quotes
Many times a day I realize how much my own outer & inner life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, both living & dead, & how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received. Albert Einstein
“I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his father, and all our fathers, and in front to see my son, and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes were my eyes. Richard Llewellyn
Like branches on a tree, our lives may grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
–Anonymous
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs. Mary McLeod Bethune
I trace my family history so I will know who to blame.
Every family tree has some sap in it.
This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it’s the family stories that are worth the storage.
-Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~Gail Lumet Buckley
