We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
The past is not dead - it isn't even past
I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.
A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.
Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
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.
I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.
The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself every so many feet, telling you more about itself until you can almost see it, even before you come to it. The mystery reveals itself slowly, track by track, giving its genealogy early to coax you in. Further on, it will tell you the intimate details of its life and work, until you know the maker of the track like a lifelong friend.
He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.
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.
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.
There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their 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.
The past could be jettisoned. . . but seeds got carried.
