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I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it. -- Rodney Dangerfield
There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees. -- Henry Louis Gates
I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. -- Rodney Dangerfield
My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree. -- Henry Louis Gates
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. -- Fred Allen
I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses. -- Martin Freeman
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. -- Henry Louis Gates
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
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
Many a family tree needs trimming -- Kin Hubbard
My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers. -- Tupac Shakur
Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow. -- Les Dawson
Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. -- Florence King
We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side. -- Brian Posehn
From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits. -- Wes Fesler
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job. -- Orlando Aloysius Battista
I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree. -- John Burroughs
Oh sure, I have a few black people in my family tree. They're probably still hanging there. -- Zach Braff
My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section. -- Rodney Dangerfield
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree. -- Helen Keller
Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you. -- Mark Twain
It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given. -- Sheri Holman
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
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
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth. -- Lynn Margulis
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
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
...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise -- E. Lockhart
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
I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into both Denmark and Sweden. I don't think about it, of course, when I am writing. -- Per Petterson
To be sure about nonsense he had to be able to classify it, assign it to a family tree of liberal nonsense, humanist-humanitarian nonsense, academic nonsense, Protestant nonsense, Freudian nonsense and so on. -- Kingsley Amis
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
I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures. -- Belinda Jeffrey
My dad has done a bit of research on our family tree, and we can trace it quite far back. My dad believes he has traced us back to being a great-great-great-great-great-great cousin of Wellington. -- Tom Bennett
I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean... -- Densey Clyne
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
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
I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too. -- Timothy F. Cahill
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
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I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands. -- Ariel Gore
My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas. -- Colin Camerer
The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true. -- Jean Shepherd
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. -- Henry Louis Gates
All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins. -- Elizabeth McCracken
No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin. -- Russell M. Nelson
In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.' -- Kellan Lutz
I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.' -- Dionne Warwick
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. -- Chanakya
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
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
Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend. -- Kara Lindsay
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. -- Moshe Dayan
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
The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families. -- Thaksin Shinawatra
For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry. -- Malaika Arora Khan
Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little. -- Malaika Arora Khan
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
The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree -- Anchee Min
There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree. -- Carolyn Hax
You never did master a leer.- Katharine Murray, Death on the Family Tree -- Patricia Sprinkle
Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family. -- Charles M. Schulz
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. -- Bill Vaughan

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