Genealogy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.
-- Joan Didion -
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
-- Laurence Overmire -
Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
-- Sydney J. Harris -
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.
-- W. H. Auden -
There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.
-- Sean Wilsey -
I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.
-- Sharon Cameron -
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 -
I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.
-- Talal Asad