Education Quote by Paul Hackley

The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself…

— Tom Brown, Jr

If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims,…

— Michael Parenti

“Everyone will tell you that genealogy serves two purposes: self-knowledge and social status, some sort of pedigree divined from names, locations, and achievements of…

— Ellen Meloy

In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish a calendar.…

— Adrienne Monnier

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

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

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

— Christa Wolf

“Genealogy becomes a mania, an obsessive struggle to penetrate the past and snatch meaning from an infinity of names. At some point the search…

— Henry Wiencek

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

In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be…

— Kevin Young

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

“All of our ancestors live within each one of us whether we are aware of it or not.”

— Laurence Overmire