I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. — Rodney Dangerfield
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. — Alex Haley
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. — Ralph Ellison
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. — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you. — Mark Twain
Birth, ancestry, and that which you yourself have not achieved can hardly be called your own — Greek Proverbs
If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely. — Philip Glass
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. — Plato
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. — Alan Dundes
An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor. — Danny Silk
They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground. — Francis Bacon
It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. — Lewis Thomas
We must strive to become good ancestors. — Ralph Nader
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard
Short Genealogical Quotes
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. — Fred Allen
A family reunion is an effective form of birth control. — Robert A. Heinlein
The past is not dead - it isn't even past — Christa Wolf
MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees. — Ambrose Bierce
As you get older, you get more... genealogical. — Jack Kerouac
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. — Marcel Proust
I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing. — Sharon Cameron
The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk. — Mark Batterson
We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. — Florence King
Father Value Quotes
Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad. — Gary Smalley
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. — Samuel Adams
My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me. — Justin Trudeau
It was my father who taught me to value myself. — Dawn French
My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period. — Ivanka Trump
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. — William Shakespeare
Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother. — Karl Marx
When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result. — Emma Thompson
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself. — Yusef Komunyakaa
Family Ancestry Quotes
Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions. — Nainoa Thompson
There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from. — Benvenuto Cellini
Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouth perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word. — Pierre Charron
We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves. — Daniel Defoe
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself. — Edmund Burke
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? — Juvenal
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another. — Seneca
Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. — Daniel Defoe
You can change so many things in your life, but you cannot change where you come from. It's something that you have to deal with: the role everybody plays in his family, no matter if he likes it or not. — Maren Ade
I have a musical ancestry as much as I have a family ancestry. Honoring those ancestors gives you access to a greater source of appreciation and information than you would have if you were just going on your own ego system. — Billy Corgan
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are. — Madeleine L'Engle
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
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. — Rick Moody
The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking. — Gilles Deleuze
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals. — Robert Anton Wilson
Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the other hand, is the developmental history of the concrete, morphological individual. — Ernst Haeckel
Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. — Ambrose Bierce
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. — Elliott Sober
Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt. — Sayings
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. — Bob Edwards
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. — Gina McKee
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
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language. — Daniel Dennett
The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used, but these have no more real bearing on the matter than those employed in genealogical tables have in explaining the laws of procreation. — James Joseph Sylvester
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
For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel. I haven't written very much of it. That's the dirty secret of the Cullman center: The writers don't write their fiction there, they just do their research. — Andrew Sean Greer
It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Of America it would ill beseem any Englishman, and me perhaps as little as another, to speak unkindly, to speak unpatriotically, if any of us even felt so. Sure enough, America is a great, and in many respects a blessed and hopeful phenomenon. Sure enough, these hardy millions of Anglosaxon men prove themselves worthy of their genealogy. But as to a Model Republic, or a model anything, the wise among themselves know too well that there is nothing to be said. Their Constitution, such as it may be, was made here, not there. Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. — Thomas Carlyle
Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language. — Johann Georg Hamann
Read the genealogy of Jesus, and you have to see how the four women in that genealogy God used their sins for His glory. — Rick Warren
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. — Stephen Greenblatt
Instead of thinking of the question of race genealogically, and leaving it open whether vernacular races are genealogical units, the interest in biomedicine has been to determine whether vernacular racial categories are medically useful in diagnosis and treatment. There is on-going debate about this. — Elliott Sober
Everything Donald Trump does on TV is an added bonus. You either have it or you don't, and that's why the people who have it earn a lot of money. It's one of those genealogical things that some people have and most people don't. — Rush Limbaugh
There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy. — Sean Wilsey
What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can't even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure. — Henry Louis Gates
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. — Rosanne Cash
Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known. — Alex Haley
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. — Heber J. Grant
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. — Nola Ochs
I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies. — Talal Asad
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. — Terry Tempest Williams
You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest. — Rutherford B. Hayes
Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit. — Amelia B. Edwards
Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners. — Roger L'Estrange
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