“Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually… — John Steele Gordon 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
Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are. — Sydney J. Harris 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 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
“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
“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
“We are all the product of things we've never seen and people we never met. In fact, if just one little detail… — Melanie Johnston Copy Share Image
“We don't put much stock in genealogy where I'm from [...] It's assumed that you're kind of a loser if you have… — Lisa Cach 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
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
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
“In the past few years, genealogical research has become increasingly popular. Perhaps one of the reasons for this is that we are… — Oliver Pötzsch 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
“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
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 don't want to lose you over tedious genealogy and history that must be very dim to you. This is a story… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals"… — Stephen Greenblatt 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
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
The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against… — Terry Tempest Williams 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
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. — Florence King 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
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
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
“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
“All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.” — Lucy Knisley Copy Share Image
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. — Ambrose Bierce 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
“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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