Genealogy Quotations

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

He traced the genealogy of the feeling.

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

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

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

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