Genealogy Quote by Sharon Cameron

“All of our ancestors give us the precious gift of life. Do we use it wisely? Do we use it well? Do we make…

— Laurence Overmire

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

I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from,…

— Sharon Cameron

“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

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

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

“A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on.”

— Jo Ann V. Glim

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