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

    Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.108, Multnomah
  • 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.

  • Read the genealogy of Jesus, and you have to see how the four women in that genealogy God used their sins for His glory.

    Jesus   Four   Sin  
    "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.
  • There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.

    People   Kind   Genealogy  
    "Conversation: Francine du Plessix Gray and Sean Wilsey". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.
  • 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.

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

  • In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals" and that hit me hard. I don't know where I got it. My parents warned me not to mention either of those books when I went for my college interviews so I wouldn't seem like an egghead. They told me to talk about sports.

    Sports   Book   School  
    Source: www.bostonglobe.com
  • 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.

    Mom   Thinking   Two  
    "Harvey Weinstein On Hollywood's Heated Oscar Race". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 2, 2011.
  • 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.

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

    Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Essay 2, Section 10, 1887.
  • Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

    "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("As It Seemed to Us"), (p. 498), 1973.
  • There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

    Life   Kings   Diversity  
    Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.5, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.453, VM eBooks
  • 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.

    Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks”, p.220
  • The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.

    Heart   Soul   Earth  
    Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.288, Vintage
  • While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.472, Modern Library
  • Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

    Family   Men   Care  
  • I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.

    Source: bookpage.com
  • Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

  • 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.

  • History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

  • I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

    Funny   Family   Witty  
  • When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy.

    Song   Dad   School  
    "Rosanne Cash Runs Down Her Father's 'List'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2009.
  • Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

  • 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 (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association
  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

    Wisdom   Witty   Humorous  
    "Work, Society, and Culture". The New York Times, December 16, 1957.
  • Evolutionary biologists often avoid using the term "race" because there is so much racist baggage that comes with the term. However, they are often okay with the idea that the genealogy of human groups within our species can sometimes be inferred in much the same way as the genealogy of different species.

    Race   Ideas   Way  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always enjoyed tracing family history.

    Source: www.mybestyears.com
  • If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

    Life   Family   History  
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