Genealogy Quotes

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

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

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

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

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

I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

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

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

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

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.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

He traced the genealogy of the feeling.

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

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

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.