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Genealogy Quotes

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The past is not dead - it isn't even past
Christa Wolf

Authors on Genealogy Quotes: Sean Wilsey Christa Wolf Heber J. Grant Sharon Cameron Bob Edwards Mark Batterson Sydney J. Harris W. H. Auden Friedrich Nietzsche Robert A. Heinlein Talal Asad Joan Didion Zadie Smith Ralph Waldo Emerson Daniel Dennett Florence King
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A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

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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

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

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

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I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.
Talal Asad

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

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Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.
Florence King

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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

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

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There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.
Sean Wilsey

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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

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I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.
Sharon Cameron

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He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
Zadie Smith