Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. — Florence King Copy Share Image
I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
It's all about the family tree, there's a family tree. You know Melly Mel birthed KRS-One, KRS-One I think birthed Tupac. — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
“This is not your legacy. This is not your family tree. Yesterday does not define you. This is not your legacy. This… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has… — Jim Piddock Copy Share Image
; People say you can choose your friends, but not your family. Well, I have cut a hell of a lot of… — Brittany Marcum Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Her brother has a disease, an illness with the shape and sound of a snake. It slithers through the branches of our… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree… — Peter Hammill Copy Share Image
My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The bacteria species in your colon today are more or less the same ones you had when you were six months old.… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“A whole section of the family tree is pruned and primped and assessed as I politely sit there. Overall, I detect that… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“The rest of the family tree had a root system soggy with alcohol... One aunt had fallen asleep with her face in… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Where are you going?" I asked, as Frank swung his feet off the bed. "I'd hate the dear old thing to be… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
People say you can choose your friends, but not your family. Well, I have cut a hell of a lot of branches… — Brii Ann Copy Share Image
“My lip curled. “He had it out for me before he knew a thing about me except that I had tits instead… — Drumline, Stacy Kestwick Copy Share Image
“My family tree has many branches, both living and dead... but all equally important. I cherish the memories that make its roots… — Lynda I Fisher Copy Share Image
...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
“If her death wakes something in the deep, then she will bring more shame down on her House with that one act… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
We have chaos reigning in the Middle East. There is a great deal of instability. In the past, people would have turned… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Sister to sister we will always be, a couple of nuts off the family tree. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Self-care has to be a conscious effort, because I often think there's a whole family tree of people who come before I… — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
I've already brought enough shame on the family without halting the family tree. — Alan Carr Copy Share Image
Nobody gives you a chance, you gotta take chances. Your family tree, I will break branches. — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
