Quotes About Your Family Tree

#1. The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come.

Steve Farrar

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

Mark Twain

#3. You found your family tree, Rowdy, and the branches are stronger and sturdier than most people with blood relatives have.

Jay Crownover

#4. So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and ... Wanda Sykes and John Legend ... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

Henry Louis Gates

#5. You can become interested too late to realize how important your family tree is. The

Ravi Zacharias

#6. Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

Florence King

#7. Family became so important to me. Without it I was like a tree alone in a desert.

Alephonsion Deng

#8. My Christmas tree glimmered with lights, ornaments, and tinsel. Though such holiday trimmings weren't in vogue any longer, I loved them. I pulled every box of family decorations from the attic and glamored the tree until it looked like a "fancy woman in a cheap brothel" as my aunt Loulane would say.

Carolyn Haines

#9. Katharine: I can't keep up with you!
Tom: I don't want you to keep up. I love you for yourself.
- Death on the Family Tree

Patricia Sprinkle

#10. Between the two of us, we've got a family tree rooted in Hell!

Sharon Kay Penman

#11. The reality is that when you visit Italy, you'll be hijacked by relatives of all sorts; the entire family tree is waiting to meet you. [A hyphenated Italian's risk]

Ivanka Di Felice

#12. SOMETIMES I SYMPATHIZE WITH SIRIUS' MOTHER. I'D WANT TO BLAST YOU OFF MY FAMILY TREE TOO.

Birdy Jones

#13. There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction.

Jim Piddock

#14. I stared, like always. A tree in the Petrified Forest. I looked down at my hands and feet and ordered them to move, only they wouldn't.

Tracy Bilen

#15. We're all born nameless, aren't we? And the name we end up with has only peripherally to do with our family tree.

Emma Bull

#16. I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

Danny Meyer

#17. All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

Donald Johanson

#18. You can even tell where a person's family came from by looking at the type of bacterium he or she carries!

Jennifer Gardy

#19. Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#20. You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.

Dermot Mulroney

#21. Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs. Jude and me have one soul between us that we have to share: a tree with its leaves on fire. And Dad has a plate of maggots for his.

Jandy Nelson

#22. I'd felt obligated to get Ian a Christmas present. A chunk of coal sat in a brightly wrapped box under the tree, his name written in big bold letters on the front of it.
Ian might be family, but he still had been a very naughty boy this year.

Jeaniene Frost

#23. There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.

Hans Christian Andersen

#24. [Prince Stefan's] family was of Eastern European descent, with some real royalty thrown in via a connection to Vlad the Impaler - who hung from a branch that Ian wouldn't kept secret had the family tree been growing in his yard.

Suzanne Brockmann

#25. So, Zed, isn't this a killer outfit?"
"Certainly a killer, baby."
"Good, because I've bought another five just like it."
"You horrible, teasing fairy. If you really have more of those fashion disasters in your bags, I'm gonna hang you on top of the family Christmas tree in December.

Joss Stirling

#26. I think we all do our own thing and we all have our own talents, but it's good to know that you have a family tree of success so if you need the help on your journey to success then you can look around and see it around you.

Tyga

#27. Your whole family fell from the crazy tree and hit every damn branch on the way down.

Alexandra Bracken

#28. Does the soul have a passport? Or do you simply pick the branch of the family tree that you prefer, with its preferred location, and hang your history on it?

Susan Mann

#29. Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.

Esai Morales

#30. I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn't get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it's not the right thing to do. You've got to stay true to your family.

Max Schneider

#31. As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.

Chanakya

#32. I grew it - sorry, drew it - for this book, if for no other reason than to illustrate the old saying that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Connor Franta

#33. We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.

Henry Louis Gates

#34. On every family tree you have two kinds of fruit; ripe and rotten.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#35. Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

Francesca Lia Block

#36. From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.

Wes Fesler

#37. There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.

Carolyn Hax

#38. I can only sign over everything,
the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
Then I can sleep.
Maybe.

Anne Sexton

#39. Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.

Kamila Shamsie

#40. I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

Rodney Dangerfield

#41. You never did master a leer.
- Katharine Murray, Death on the Family Tree

Patricia Sprinkle

#42. In any case I would cut myself a path to the throne even if some bastard-born herder had fathered me on a gutter-whore - genealogy can work for me or I can cut down the family tree and make a battering ram. Either way is good.

Mark Lawrence

#43. Big Stupid leapt up. Little Duane had a gun. Big Stupid punched Little Duane so hard his whole family tree died back to the Middle Ages.

Victor Gischler

#44. This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values ...

Laurie Halse Anderson

#45. Broad-streeted Richmond ... The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#46. I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

Hugo Chavez

#47. I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Fred Allen

#48. I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

Rodney Dangerfield

#49. Her brother has a disease, an illness with the shape and sound of a snake. It slithers through the branches of our family tree. It must have broken her heart, to know that I was next.

Nathan Filer

#50. TV is like high school because you go into these series, and the people that work there have been doing it for seven years, like 'One Tree Hill,' so you are going into what is already a family - if you are accepted by that family, then it's fantastic fun.

Sasha Jackson

#51. While all the universe and my family are still sleeping, I will walk among the red and blue twinkle-lights of the living room, to sit and gaze upon the pretty white angel atop the tree and say silent prayers, remembering what was good in the world and why I was brought here to remember.

Carew Papritz

#52. When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

George Horace Lorimer

#53. My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

Casey Affleck

#54. Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.

Les Dawson

#55. You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.

Lissie

#56. Oh sure, I have a few black people in my family tree. They're probably still hanging there.

Zach Braff