Browsing Topic Best Genealogy Quotes

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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.

Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to – by genealogy at least – a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I’ve ever read about slavery before.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

The past is not dead – it isn’t even past

Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father’s side, and it’s sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations… four or maybe five generations.

The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can’t figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we’ll have more luck with the dead ones.

It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

I must admit, even though I’m the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I’m going to check Mom’s genealogy.

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual — and unusually useful — format.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

There’s a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

I love genealogical research. That’s the reason I bought my first computer yearsago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I’ve always enjoyed tracing familyhistory.

There weren’t a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.

I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that’s how I started writing.

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions.

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

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 in. Further on, it will tell you the intimate details of its life and work, until you know the maker of the track like a lifelong friend.

The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again ‘nations’ with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

Words have a genealogy and it’s easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

He traced the genealogy of the feeling.