“Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” — Wernher Von Braun Copy Share Image
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on.” — Jo Ann V. Glim Copy Share Image
“I wish that I would have asked my grandparents more about their early lives in Italy when I had the chance to… — Marianne Perry Copy Share Image
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
“Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Our stories make us who we are. And each story has its own purpose and its own reward. Each story rings true… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“All of our ancestors give us the precious gift of life. Do we use it wisely? Do we use it well? Do… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for… — Gina McKee Copy Share Image
“I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names,… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“A genealogy is a striking way of bringing before us the continuity of God's purpose through the ages. The process of history… — Leon Morris Copy Share Image
There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“She is my companion on my many genealogical hunts, and I will be forever indebted to her for the knowledge that she… — Rett MacPherson Copy Share Image
Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is:… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“So it was that eight centuries after its founding by a general of Saladin’s army in 1189 a.d., Ein Hod was cleared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
“Everyone will tell you that genealogy serves two purposes: self-knowledge and social status, some sort of pedigree divined from names, locations, and… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
“...all the dutiful grandchildren and great-grandchildren lingering over deathbeds with digital recorders, or else mechanically pursuing their ancestors through the online genealogy… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“The first chapter of Matthew begins with giving a genealogy of Jesus Christ; and in the third chapter of Luke there is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Genealogy becomes a mania, an obsessive struggle to penetrate the past and snatch meaning from an infinity of names. At some point… — Henry Wiencek Copy Share Image
“ In genealogy you might say that interest lies in the eye of the gene holder. The actual descendants are far more… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
“All of our ancestors live within each one of us whether we are aware of it or not.” — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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