Quotes about genealogy
evolution language genealogy
Daniel Dennett Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
children blood genealogy
Ralph Waldo Emerson We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
birth-control family-reunion genealogy
Robert A. Heinlein A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
people genealogy preoccupation
Sydney J. Harris Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
tree genealogy devoted
Florence King Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.
imagine genealogy offenders
Friedrich Nietzsche It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.
blessing risk genealogy
Mark Batterson The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.
people temples genealogy
Heber J. Grant 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.
past genealogy seeds
Joan Didion The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.
curious genealogy delusion
W. H. Auden Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.
feelings genealogy
Zadie Smith He traced the genealogy of the feeling.