Best Genealogy Quotes

#1. We are all descendants of murderers and thieves.

Amanda Sledz

#2. My name's Elai, Ellai's daughter, line of the first Cloud, the first Elly; of Pia, line of the first Jin when they made the world. And you're on my land.

C.J. Cherryh

#3. History doesn't move you more than when it's in the iron of your own blood.

J.R. Tompkins

#4. A person in search of his ancestors naturally likes to believe the best of them, and the best in terms of contemporary standards. Where genealogical facts are few, and these located in the remote past, reconstruction of family history is often more imaginative than correct.

James G. Leyburn

#5. A genealogy is a striking way of bringing before us the continuity of God's purpose through the ages. The process of history is not haphazard. There is a purpose in it all. And the purpose is the purpose of God.

Leon Morris

#6. A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations ... four or maybe five generations.

Gina McKee

#7. Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories.

Susannah Mansfield

#8. Look to the past to see what the future holds.

Celia Conrad

#9. History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill

Ron Mayes

#10. Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

Florence King

#11. It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. The past could be jettisoned ... but seeds got carried.

Joan Didion

#13. The past is not dead - it isn't even past

Christa Wolf

#14. Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

Charles Darwin

#15. Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy.

Joseph Campbell

#16. Genealogy of ideas. You don't get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.

Austin Kleon

#17. Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

W. H. Auden

#18. Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

Sydney J. Harris

#19. Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.

Rory Bremner

#20. Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

Tim Wise

#21. Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA

Amit Ray

#22. Hat the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we lived. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

Ellen Goodman

#23. The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#24. I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Fred Allen

#25. She might not have enjoyed genealogy like they did, she wasn't even sure who her great grandparents were (to this group's horror) but they could all agree that there ought to be an organization like PETA for the ethical treatment of old homes and structures.

Rebecca Patrick-Howard

#26. Most people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind.

Rett MacPherson

#27. I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

Harvey Weinstein

#28. In any case I would cut myself a path to the throne even if some bastard-born herder had fathered me on a gutter-whore - genealogy can work for me or I can cut down the family tree and make a battering ram. Either way is good.

Mark Lawrence

#29. A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

Robert A. Heinlein

#30. A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#31. I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.

Heber J. Grant

#32. She is INSANE," I scream, standing in the middle of Marshall's living room.
"Of course, she's insane. That would be your genealogy by the way.

Addison Moore