Genealogy Quotes

He traced the genealogy of the feeling.

I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.

Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

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

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.

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

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

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

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

Read the genealogy of Jesus, and you have to see how the four women in that genealogy God used their sins for His glory.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

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

The first track is the end of a string.  At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself every so many feet, telling you more about itself until you can almost see it, even before you come to it.  The mystery reveals itself slowly, track by track, giving its genealogy early to coax you in.  Further on, it will tell you the intimate details of its life and work, until you know the maker of the track like a lifelong friend.

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.

Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.

I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.

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.

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.

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or parents is not the same. To lose a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows all hope.

There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.

Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format.

Evolutionary biologists often avoid using the term "race" because there is so much racist baggage that comes with the term. However, they are often okay with the idea that the genealogy of human groups within our species can sometimes be inferred in much the same way as the genealogy of different species.

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.

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.

In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals" and that hit me hard. I don't know where I got it. My parents warned me not to mention either of those books when I went for my college interviews so I wouldn't seem like an egghead. They told me to talk about sports.

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

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.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

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.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

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

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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.

While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.

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

If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.