“History doesn’t move you more than when it’s in the iron of your own blood.” — J.R. Tompkins Copy Share Image
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the… — Susannah Mansfield Copy Share Image
There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy. — Sean Wilsey Copy Share Image
Read the genealogy of Jesus, and you have to see how the four women in that genealogy God used their sins for… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. — W. H. Auden 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
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. — Florence King 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
While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside,"… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees. Official census records, used by so many genealogy enthusiasts to piece… — Jesmyn Ward 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
Evolutionary biologists often avoid using the term "race" because there is so much racist baggage that comes with the term. However, they… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer.… — Nola Ochs Copy Share Image
In 1650 Bishop Ussher dated the creation from the genealogy given in the Bible at 4004 B.C.; for a long time (even… — Leigh Page Copy Share Image
“Full confession: I am not dispassionate and unbiased. I didn't come to genetic genealogy services to be underwhelmed or go back to… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
“Nuclear didn't describe families. How could it? Dry physics was not equal to that task. In the twentieth century we needed a… — Laura Kalpakian Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
“He'd viewed the past like Uncle Joseph's grave, an empty hole without life, waiting to be filled in by him. It never… — Vivian LeMay Copy Share Image
We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my… — Abraham H. Cannon 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
“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
“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
“You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” — Wernher Von Braun Copy Share Image
