Lucius Aelius/nerva-antonine Family Tree

Famous quotes containing the words family tree, family and/or tree:

    “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 (1928–1974)

    “While one family is well-fed and clothed, a thousand others grumble.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, “Know thyself,” and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)