Genealogy Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Creative, Different, Noble

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.472, Modern Library

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• Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.

  Austin Kleon

  Teacher, Book, Ideas

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.11, Workman Publishing

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• 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

  Cousin, Hobbies, Degrees

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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

  Imagine, Offenders

  Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Essay 2, Section 10, 1887.

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• I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Mom, Thinking, Two

  "Harvey Weinstein On Hollywood's Heated Oscar Race". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 2, 2011.

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• 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.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Women, Struggle, Writing

  "Men Explain Things to Me". Book by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2014.

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• 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.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Moving, Feet, Track

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• 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

  Character, Exercise, Thinking

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

  Mark Batterson

  Blessing, Risk

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.108, Multnomah

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• 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

  Heart, Soul, Earth

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.288, Vintage

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• If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.

  Michael Parenti

  Running, Gun, Government

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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

  Curious, Delusion, Admirable

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("As It Seemed to Us"), (p. 498), 1973.

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• The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Breakup, Russia, Ukraine

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Family, Divorce, Epidemics

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

  Florence King

  Tree, Devoted, Southerner

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• 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

  Swimming, Science, Animal

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.453, VM eBooks

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• In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish a calendar. Then it traces a genealogy. It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will be that of men and not of idle gods. The whole spirit must become incarnate and explore the possible.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Bible, Book, Destiny

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.376, U of Nebraska Press

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• THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.

  Abraham H. Cannon

  President, Done, Four

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• 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

  Cousin, Father, Coal Miners

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions.

  Virgilia Peterson

  Art, Divorce, Fever

  Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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• 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

  Sports, Book, School

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• 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

  Race, Ideas, Way

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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

  Sharon Cameron

  Writing, Heritage

  Source: bookpage.com

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• 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

  Science, History, Development

  Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks”, p.220

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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

  People, Kind, Barricades

  "Conversation: Francine du Plessix Gray and Sean Wilsey". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.

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