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  • Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

    — Cary Grant
  • Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

    — E. B. White
  • I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

    — e. e. cummings
  • What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

    — Saint Augustine
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

    — Mark Twain
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

    — Henry David Thoreau
  • If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

    — John Cardinal
  • In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

    — Anonymous
  • Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

    — John Adams
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

    — ?Santayana?
  • What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

    — Last of the Summer Wine
  • Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

    — Terry Pratchett
  • I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

    — Terry Pratchett
  • .. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

    — Petronius (210 BC)
  • The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

    — Proust
  • So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

    — Proust "Within the Budding Grove"
  • You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

    — William J. H. Boetcker
  • Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

    — Lorna
  • No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

    — George Bernard Shaw
  • A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

    — Anon
  • Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

    — Anon
  • The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

    — Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"
  • All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

    — Thomas Carlyle "The Hero as Man of Letters"
Descendants of John DAVIDSON and Agnes FAIRBAIRN
My direct line
  • John0 Davidson (cir. 1817 - Nov 1900)
    • Agnes Fairbairn (cir. 1818 - May 1884)
      • Agnes R.1 Davidson (Mar 1840 - bet. Jun 1906 - Sep 1906)
        • William Dodds (cir. 1844 - aft. 1911)
          • James2 Dodds (May 1870 - aft. 1911)
          • John2 Dodds (Oct 1871 - aft. 1916)
            • Sarah J. UnknownSurname (cir. 1871 - aft. 1916)
              • William3 Dodds (Nov 1896 - aft. 1916)
              • Robert3 Dodds (Jun 1901 - aft. 1916)
          • Rosina H.2 Dodds (Jul 1874 - bet. Sep 1922 - Dec 1922)
            • Robert Elliott (cir. 1872 - )
              • Agnes3 Elliott (bet. Jan 1897 - Mar 1897 - aft. 1911)
              • Eleanor3 Elliott (bet. Jan 1899 - Mar 1899 - aft. 1911)
              • Robert W.3 Elliott (Nov 1901 - bet. Sep 1969 - Dec 1969)
                • Edith M. Armstrong (1902 - )
              • John J.3 Elliott (bet. Jun 1905 - Sep 1905 - aft. 1911)
          • William2 Dodds (cir. 1877 - aft. 1881)
      • Helen1 Davidson (Mar 1842 - aft. 1901)
      • John1 Davidson (May 1844 - Jun 1915)
        • Isabella Ford (cir. 1844 - bet. 1901 - 1915)
          • Margaret G.2 Davidson (May 1867 - Sep 1939)
            • Peter Ganter (Jun 1862 - Jun 1926)
              • Charles L.3 Ganter (Oct 1888 - Jan 1963)
                • Emily M. Crossthwaite (Dec 1887 - Feb 1936)
              • John R.3 Ganter (Aug 1891 - Oct 1939)
                • Rose A. Kerscher (Nov 1893 - Mar 1942)
              • Walter G.3 Ganter (Jul 1893 - May 1961)
                • Alvina L. Fehlhaber (Jun 1899 - Sep 1978)
              • Francis P.3 Ganter (Feb 1896 - Jun 1917)
              • James W.3 Ganter (May 1898 - Jan 1916)
              • Isabella A. J.3 Ganter (Jan 1902 - Aug 1976)
                • George E. Brightman (Mar 1900 - Apr 1959)
              • Annie M.3 Ganter (Mar 1905 - Sep 1974)
                • ?
                • Goldwin N. Prain (Mar 1891 - Nov 1959)
          • John2 Davidson (Nov 1869 - aft. 1881)
          • Agnes2 Davidson (Mar 1872 - aft. 1891)
          • Isabella2 Davidson (Dec 1874 - aft. 1886)
          • Benjamin2 Davidson (cir. 1878 - aft. 1915)
      • Mary1 Davidson (Jul 1846 - aft. 1901)
        • James Jeffrey (Mar 1845 - bet. 1888 - 1891)
          • Agnes2 Jeffrey (Oct 1869 - aft. 1881)
          • Margaret2 Jeffrey (Oct 1871 - aft. 1881)
          • Andrew2 Jeffrey (Aug 1873 - bet. 1873 - 1881)
          • Mary2 Jeffrey (cir. 1876 - aft. 1881)
          • Ellen2 Jeffrey (cir. 1880 - aft. 1881)
          • John2 Jeffrey (cir. 1883 - aft. 1901)
          • Jemima2 Jeffrey (cir. 1886 - aft. 1901)
          • Alice2 Jeffrey (cir. 1888 - aft. 1929)
      • Walter1 Davidson (Nov 1848 - Oct 1881)
        • Jessie McIntyre (cir. 1854 - Dec 1915)
          • John2 Davidson (May 1873 - Feb 1917)
            • Edith Stewart (Aug 1875 - Jul 1926)
              • William S.3 Davidson (Sep 1897 - aft. 1926)
              • Jessie M.3 Davidson (Oct 1902 - aft. 1957)
                • Price Evans (say 1902 - )
          • Walter F.2 Davidson (Jun 1877 - Oct 1920)
            • Amy F. Pope (Aug 1871 - Jan 1957)
              • Hubert F.3 Davidson (Jun 1902 - May 1961)
                • Mickey UnknownSurname (say 1902 - )
                • Elba UnknownSurname (say 1903 - )
              • Isabella B.3 Davidson (Apr 1904 - May 1977)
                • Jack McEwan
                • Thomas S. Houston (Apr 1899 - )
              • Howard J.3 Davidson (Jan 1907 - Apr 1983)
                • Gertrude Common
              • Harold M.3 Davidson (Sep 1908 - May 1998)
                • Margaret H. Laing (Dec 1912 - Aug 2001)
          • Robert M.2 Davidson (Sep 1881 - Sep 1916)
      • Adam1 Davidson (Mar 1851 - Sep 1920)
        • Isabella Bain (Jul 1857 - Oct 1915)
          • John S.2 Davidson (1882 - Oct 1933)
            • Isabella F. Crawford (cir. 1871 - bef. Oct 1944)
          • Agnes M.2 Davidson (Apr 1885 - Mar 1955)
            • Archibald Henderson (Jan 1883 - Jan 1952)
              • Isabella H.3 Henderson (Dec 1910 - Dec 1985)
              • Leslie A.3 Henderson (Mar 1913 - Apr 1995)
          • James F.2 Davidson (Apr 1887 - Oct 1929)
            • Alice Clark (cir. 1886 - aft. 1929)
      • George1 Davidson (Feb 1855 - aft. 1901)
        • Ann Bird (cir. 1846 - aft. 1901)
          • John2 Davidson (Mar 1881 - aft. 1891)
          • George2 Davidson (cir. 1883 - aft. 1901)
      • James1 Davidson (Jan 1858 - Dec 1932)
        • Alice Elliott (cir. 1865 - Nov 1909)
        • Barbara F. Hagen (1870 - 1951)
My direct line