Genealogy Quotes

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

~ Amit Kalantri

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In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

~ Amit Kalantri

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

~ Amit Kalantri

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

~ Amit Kalantri

Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA

~ Amit Ray

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

~ Thomas Carlyle

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

~ Joan Didion

All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.

~ Lucy Knisley

If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

~ Michael Chrichton

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

~ Eleanor Brownn

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

~ Tim Wise

Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories.

~ Susannah Mansfield

The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.

~ Kelly Cherry

Over the course of the millennia, all these multitudes of ancestors, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time—to give birth to you. There has never been, nor will ever be, another like you. You have been given a tremendous responsibility. You carry the hopes and dreams of all those who have gone before. Hopes and dreams for a better world. What will you do with your time on this Earth? How will you contribute to the ongoing story of humankind?

~ Laurence Overmire

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

~ Orson Scott Card

Look to the past to see what the future holds.

~ Celia Conrad

A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on.

~ Jo Ann V. Glim

History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill

~ Ron Mayes

I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls upon a wire, into an entirely private and thus irrelevant narrative, lacking any historical significance. The narcissistic pastime of nostalgic bores.

~ Joshua Ferris

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