Genealogical Tree Quotes

#1. MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. I trust you all slept well," I said, deliberately keeping my tone light. I returned Malich's glare with a tight-lipped grin.
"Yes, we did," Kaden answered quickly.
"I'm sorry to hear that.

Mary E. Pearson

#3. Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit ...

Amelia B. Edwards

#4. This is because our personal genetic tree is not equivalent to our genealogical tree, which is to say that not every one of our direct ancestors has contributed to our genome.

Christine Kenneally

#5. Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.

Gore Vidal

#6. Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself.

Suzanne Curchod

#7. A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.

Lemony Snicket

#8. She'd hardly describe Trent as "cute." Adonis, stud-like, hottie McHot Hot, even pulchritudinous - all acceptable descriptions. Hardly just cute.

Jennifer Shirk

#9. believed then and I believe now that where everybody thinks the same nobody thinks very much. I

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#10. The measure of an education is that you acquire some idea of the extent of your ignorance.

Christopher Hitchens

#11. I've got to make sure I'm keeping weight on.

Allyson Felix

#12. Time never waits for your answers like do you want to continue or not. It continues so be clever, one moment you will wake up in 16, then 26, then 45, then 67 and your whole life it will went like two hours film!

Deyth Banger

#13. Things always seem to glide away.
They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again.

Markus Zusak

#14. I'd like to be tidy, said Hen, I try, but I guess you can't be what you aren't.

Alexander McCall Smith

#15. To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle.

Chris Matthews

#16. I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

Mary Ellen Mark

#17. I can't bail out on Cary," I said apologetically, turning to face him. "Chicks before dicks and all that.

Sylvia Day

#18. Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.

Akiva Goldsman

#19. . . the humanities encourage the development of our own humanity. They are our instruments of self-exploration.

Michael Dirda