"I'm My Own Grandpa"
Many many years ago, When I was twenty-three,
I got married to a widow, Who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter, Who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her, And soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law, And changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother, For she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse, Although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father; Of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became, A brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle, Though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle, Then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter, Who, of course, was my step-mother.
Father's wife then had a son, Who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson, For he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother, And it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife, She's my grandmother too.
If my wife is my grandmother, Then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it, It simply drives me wild.
For now I have become, The strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!
I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
It sounds funny, I know,
But it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.
Genealogists say the funniest things!
These quotes are from copies of actual correspondence received by the
Family History Department of the LDS Church:
We are sending you 5 children in a separate envelope.
My Grandfather died at the age of 3.
Will you please send me the name of my first wife? I have forgotten her name.
We lost our Grandmother, will you please send us a copy?
The wife of #22 could not be found. Somebody suggested that she might have been stillborn - what do you think?
Will you send me a list of all the Dripps in your library?
Further research will be necessary to eliminate one of the parents.
He and his daughter are listed as not being born.
I would like to find out if I have any living relatives or dead relatives or ancestors in my family.
A 14-year-old boy wrote: "I do not want you to do my research for me. Will you please send me all of the material on the Welch line, in the US, England and Scotland countries? I will do the research.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Quotes of Dante Alighieri
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Follow your own star!
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
From a little spark may burst a flame.
He listens well who takes notes.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
I love to doubt as well as know.
The secret of getting things done is to act.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Nature is the art of God.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Small projects need much more help than great.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Follow your own star!
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
From a little spark may burst a flame.
He listens well who takes notes.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
I love to doubt as well as know.
The secret of getting things done is to act.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Nature is the art of God.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Small projects need much more help than great.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Winston Churchill
British Statesman & Prime Minister ( 1874-1965)
WINSTON CHURCHILL
* The price of greatness is responsibility.
*Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
*Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
*We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
*Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.
* Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
* If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.
*Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
*War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
*A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
*Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ''This was their finest hour.''
*A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
* It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
* Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.
*Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
*It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
*The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
* The English never draw a line without blurring it.
*For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
* Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
* All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
*Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
* Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
* Those who forget history are bound to repeat it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
* The price of greatness is responsibility.
*Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
*Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
*We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
*Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.
* Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
* If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.
*Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
*War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
*A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
*Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ''This was their finest hour.''
*A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
* It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
* Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.
*Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
*It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
*The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
* The English never draw a line without blurring it.
*For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
* Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
* All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
*Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
* Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
* Those who forget history are bound to repeat it.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes Sayings & Quotations
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 16th President of the U.S.A. ( 1809-1865)
*And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
*Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
*If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
*America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
*You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
* Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
* Whatever you are, be a good one.
*All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
*Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
* A house divided against itself cannot stand.
*To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
*Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
*In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
*Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. -
*I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
* Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
* I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
*What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?
*Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
*It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''
*Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
*Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
*I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
*Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
*Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
*Public opinion in this country is everything.
* If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
*Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
*Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
*Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
*Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
* Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
*The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
*Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.
*I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
*I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
* Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
*And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
*Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
*If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
*America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
*You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
* Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
* Whatever you are, be a good one.
*All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
*Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
* A house divided against itself cannot stand.
*To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
*Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
*In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
*Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. -
*I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
* Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
* I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
*What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?
*Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
*It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''
*Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
*Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
*I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
*Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
*Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
*Public opinion in this country is everything.
* If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
*Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
*Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
*Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
*Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
* Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
*The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
*Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.
*I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
*I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
* Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
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