Quotes by Genealogy 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 genealogy impressive slavery The past is not dead - it isn't even past Christa Wolf genealogy inspirational past Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language. Daniel Dennett genealogy evolution language Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. Florence King genealogy devoted tree 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 genealogy temples people 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 offenders genealogy imagine The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried. Joan Didion genealogy seeds past The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk. Mark Batterson genealogy risk blessing A family reunion is an effective form of birth control. Robert A. Heinlein family-reunion genealogy birth-control We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor. Ralph Waldo Emerson genealogy children blood There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy. Sean Wilsey genealogy kind people I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing. Sharon Cameron genealogy heritage writing Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are. Sydney J. Harris genealogy preoccupation people I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies. Talal Asad genealogy definitions said Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. W. H. Auden genealogy delusion curious He traced the genealogy of the feeling. Zadie Smith genealogy feelings