Top 71 Quotes About Genealogy
#1. Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint.
Anne Rice
#2. The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.
Terry Tempest Williams
#3. Genealogy: research by nobodies tracing their descent from a line of nobodies.
Stephen Gard
#4. The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
Tariq Ali
#5. Politics is always related to the history and genealogy.
Toba Beta
#6. He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
Zadie Smith
#7. I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years
ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always enjoyed tracing family
history.
Nola Ochs
#8. The notion of displacement destabilizes spatial hierarchies of senders and receivers, and turns the issue of historical causality into one or more negotiable genealogy and interpretative communities.
Charlotte Bydler
#9. Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions.
Virgilia Peterson
#10. 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
#11. I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls upon a wire, into an entirely private and thus irrelevant narrative, lacking any historical significance. The narcissistic pastime of nostalgic bores.
Joshua Ferris
#12. Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
Daniel Dennett
#13. Genealogy is the study of the dead---but it's not a dead study!!!
Paul Hackley
#14. Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual
and unusually useful
format.
John Steele Gordon
#15. He could trace his genealogy all the way back to his parents,
Charles Dickens
#16. The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.
Mark Batterson
#17. History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
Laurence Overmire
#18. 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
#19. But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
Bob Edwards
#20. Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Ambrose Bierce
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
Sydney J. Harris
#28. 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
#29. Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy.
Joseph Campbell
#30. 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
#31. Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.
Florence King
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.
Sean Wilsey
#35. It was an early saying here [Massachusetts] that there were 'Roots enough to plant Hampshire County and Gunns enough to defend them.
Edward Pearson Pressey
#37. History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Thomas Carlyle
#38. The pursuit of origins is a way of rescuing territory from death and oblivion, a reconquest that ought to be patient, devoted, relentless and faithful.
Amin Maalouf
#39. Rather than following a [genealogical] 'line', I find myself drawn to all the people I encounter, including those who, only by the most obtuse reckoning, can be thought of as relatives. Every life deserves telling; none is without drama and change.
Alison Light
#40. She is my companion on my many genealogical hunts, and I will be forever indebted to her for the knowledge that she bequeathed to me. And I can think of nobody I would rather traipse through a cemetery with, and that says a lot about a person.
Rett MacPherson
#42. The story of his great-grandfather ... was his own story, too.
Kelly Cherry
#43. We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. To Wrench the human soul from its moorings, to immerse it in terrors, ice, flames, and raptures to such an extent that it is liberated from all petty displeasure, gloom and depression as by a flash of lightening: what paths lead to this goal? And which of them do so most surely?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on.
Jo Ann V. Glim
#46. I wish that I would have asked my grandparents more about their early lives in Italy when I had the chance to do so.
Marianne Perry
#48. You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment
Rex Stout
#49. We are all the product of things we've never seen and people we never met. In fact, if just one little detail had been changed in their lives, we may not even exist!
Melanie Johnston
#50. Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.
Orson Scott Card
#51. There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
Laurence Overmire
#52. To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled.
Colin Quinn
#53. The past could be jettisoned ... but seeds got carried.
Joan Didion
#54. Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.
W. H. Auden
#55. 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
#57. 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
#58. I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
Fred Allen
#59. 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
#60. Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA
Amit Ray
#61. We are all descendants of murderers and thieves.
Amanda Sledz
#63. Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.
Laurence Overmire
#64. 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
#65. History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill
Ron Mayes
#66. Look to the past to see what the future holds.
Celia Conrad
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. History doesn't move you more than when it's in the iron of your own blood.
J.R. Tompkins
#70. 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
#71. I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.
Talal Asad
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