Top 53 Family And Tree Quotes

#1. We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.

Henry Louis Gates

Family And Tree Quotes #21828
#2. On every family tree you have two kinds of fruit; ripe and rotten.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Family And Tree Quotes #32506
#3. From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.

Wes Fesler

Family And Tree Quotes #78853
#4. Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.

Kamila Shamsie

Family And Tree Quotes #105730
#5. I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

Rodney Dangerfield

Family And Tree Quotes #111585
#6. 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

Family And Tree Quotes #118021
#7. I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

Rodney Dangerfield

Family And Tree Quotes #203284
#8. Her brother has a disease, an illness with the shape and sound of a snake. It slithers through the branches of our family tree. It must have broken her heart, to know that I was next.

Nathan Filer

Family And Tree Quotes #213203
#9. TV is like high school because you go into these series, and the people that work there have been doing it for seven years, like 'One Tree Hill,' so you are going into what is already a family - if you are accepted by that family, then it's fantastic fun.

Sasha Jackson

Family And Tree Quotes #224227
#10. While all the universe and my family are still sleeping, I will walk among the red and blue twinkle-lights of the living room, to sit and gaze upon the pretty white angel atop the tree and say silent prayers, remembering what was good in the world and why I was brought here to remember.

Carew Papritz

Family And Tree Quotes #251039
#11. When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

George Horace Lorimer

Family And Tree Quotes #260689
#12. My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

Casey Affleck

Family And Tree Quotes #347904
#13. You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.

Lissie

Family And Tree Quotes #366246
#14. I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

Danny Meyer

Family And Tree Quotes #430666
#15. We're all born nameless, aren't we? And the name we end up with has only peripherally to do with our family tree.

Emma Bull

Family And Tree Quotes #451202
#16. I stared, like always. A tree in the Petrified Forest. I looked down at my hands and feet and ordered them to move, only they wouldn't.

Tracy Bilen

Family And Tree Quotes #464025
#17. There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction.

Jim Piddock

Family And Tree Quotes #472955
#18. My Christmas tree glimmered with lights, ornaments, and tinsel. Though such holiday trimmings weren't in vogue any longer, I loved them. I pulled every box of family decorations from the attic and glamored the tree until it looked like a "fancy woman in a cheap brothel" as my aunt Loulane would say.

Carolyn Haines

Family And Tree Quotes #528867
#19. Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Family And Tree Quotes #589015
#20. Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs. Jude and me have one soul between us that we have to share: a tree with its leaves on fire. And Dad has a plate of maggots for his.

Jandy Nelson

Family And Tree Quotes #628156
#21. There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.

Hans Christian Andersen

Family And Tree Quotes #632913
#22. For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

Malaika Arora Khan

Family And Tree Quotes #653920
#23. I think we all do our own thing and we all have our own talents, but it's good to know that you have a family tree of success so if you need the help on your journey to success then you can look around and see it around you.

Tyga

Family And Tree Quotes #906295
#24. I personally have my own idea of an efficient house. It would be totally concrete with a big drain in the middle, a large fiberglass tree for my kids to swing from and a hose hanging in the corner.

Colleen Down

Family And Tree Quotes #927258
#25. My entire view of the world has changed," he muttered as he went to the sink and began to scrub at the plates. "Sorcery, entities from the Outside, fish-men in my family tree, I can accept. Mr. Farr and Mr. Durfree as lovers crosses the line.

Jordan L. Hawk

Family And Tree Quotes #936248
#26. Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning ... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

Malaika Arora Khan

Family And Tree Quotes #937148
#27. My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.

Peter Hammill

Family And Tree Quotes #1023271
#28. Your whole family fell from the crazy tree and hit every damn branch on the way down.

Alexandra Bracken

Family And Tree Quotes #1077136
#29. Emperor, king, general, duke," he whispered to himself. "These are just labels. Climb up the family tree of any of them high enough and you'll find a commoner who dared to take a chance.

Ken Liu

Family And Tree Quotes #1093358
#30. My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

Tupac Shakur

Family And Tree Quotes #1109191
#31. My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

Ted Cruz

Family And Tree Quotes #1109538
#32. Does the soul have a passport? Or do you simply pick the branch of the family tree that you prefer, with its preferred location, and hang your history on it?

Susan Mann

Family And Tree Quotes #1122847
#33. 'One Tree Hill' really had an impact on my life. It was the first time I left my house and my family in New York and went to a small town in North Carolina. It was the most incredible experience for me.

Daniella Alonso

Family And Tree Quotes #1130376
#34. My dad has done a bit of research on our family tree, and we can trace it quite far back. My dad believes he has traced us back to being a great-great-great-great-great-great cousin of Wellington.

Tom Bennett

Family And Tree Quotes #1137201
#35. Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies [evolutionary family trees]. In this it has utterly failed.

Norman Macbeth

Family And Tree Quotes #1203965
#36. Now the snow's coming down, and im watching it fall. Watching the people around, baby please come home. Pretty lights on a tree, and im watching you shine. You should be here with me! Baby please come home

Josh Ramsay Of Marianas Trench

Family And Tree Quotes #1363216
#37. Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

Jean Webster

Family And Tree Quotes #1373061
#38. I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too.

Timothy F. Cahill

Family And Tree Quotes #1379319
#39. Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

Mark Twain

Family And Tree Quotes #1417672
#40. I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.

Belinda Jeffrey

Family And Tree Quotes #1445761
#41. You found your family tree, Rowdy, and the branches are stronger and sturdier than most people with blood relatives have.

Jay Crownover

Family And Tree Quotes #1478077
#42. I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.

Martin Freeman

Family And Tree Quotes #1550080
#43. Our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

E. Lockhart

Family And Tree Quotes #1666021
#44. Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.

Esai Morales

Family And Tree Quotes #1691792
#45. We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.

Moshe Dayan

Family And Tree Quotes #1692379
#46. So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and ... Wanda Sykes and John Legend ... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

Henry Louis Gates

Family And Tree Quotes #1718008
#47. The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.

Guy Murchie

Family And Tree Quotes #1741205
#48. Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family
Oh how hideous it is
To see three generations of one house gathered together!
It is like an old tree with shoots,
And with some branches rotted and falling.

Ezra Pound

Family And Tree Quotes #1751770
#49. You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to ... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

Henry Louis Gates

Family And Tree Quotes #1753154
#50. I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into both Denmark and Sweden. I don't think about it, of course, when I am writing.

Per Petterson

Family And Tree Quotes #1807214
#51. To be sure about nonsense he had to be able to classify it, assign it to a family tree of liberal nonsense, humanist-humanitarian nonsense, academic nonsense, Protestant nonsense, Freudian nonsense and so on.

Kingsley Amis

Family And Tree Quotes #1825847
#52. I was really young when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' and the encouragement from my friends and family has been crucial in my development as an actress. I'm also continuously surprised and humbled by the kindness and generosity of the fans.

Kelsey Chow

Family And Tree Quotes #1828229
#53. I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn't get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it's not the right thing to do. You've got to stay true to your family.

Max Schneider

Family And Tree Quotes #1848722

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