The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. Thomas Hardy
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. Hubert Humphrey
It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not. Jean La Bruyere
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. Lucan
When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child? Nagarjuna
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. Sir Walter Scott
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw
If parents would only realize how they bore their children! George Bernard Shaw
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. Voltaire