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From: Dolores Brewington <>
Subject: [FAMILY-NEWSLETTERS] FAMILY NEWSLETTERS QUOTATIONS
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:14:12 -0700

This a bit long but it is my personal favorite.

What is called my character, or nature, is made of infinite particles of
inherited tendencies from my ancestors -- those whose blood runs in my
veins.
A little seed of laziness comes from this grandfather; and of
prodigality from that other one. One of them may have been a moody
person and a pessimist; while another was of a jovial nature who always
saw the sunny side; while another ambitious one never was contented with
actual conditions whatever they were. Some remote grandmother, perhaps,
has stamped me with a fear of dogs and a love of horses. There may be
in me a bit of outlawry from some pirate forefather, and a dash of piety
from one who was a saint. My so-called particularities, my gestures, my
ways and mannerisms, I borrowed from all. Without any exception. So
everything in me passes on through my children. I am sewn between
ancestry and posterity. I am a drop of water in the flowing river of
time. A molecule in a mountain; a cell in a great family tree.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Dolores (Carpenter) Brewington
Bend, Oregon

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