Genealogy Quote by Joan Didion Download Open image “The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.” — Joan Didion ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Genealogy Past Time
The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned. — Alyssa Milano Copy Share Image
What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that… — George Washington Copy Share Image
But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it. — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of it actually happened? Any of it? Why do I keep a notebook at all? It is easy to deceive oneself on all those scores. The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable… — Joan Didion Copy Share
I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Research to date has shown that, like many other stressors, grief frequently leads to changes in the endocrine, immune, autonomic nervous, and cardiovascular systems;… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in… — Joan Didion 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 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… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share
“A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on.” — Jo Ann V. Glim 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 a compendium… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes… — Virgilia Peterson 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 from. — Alex Haley 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 defaces in… — Roger L'Estrange 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 a calendar. Then it traces a genealogy. It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share
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. — Michael Parenti Copy Share
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… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
