85 Quotes About Genealogy
- Author Joan Didion
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The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.
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- Author Carol Fuller @ Piedmont Trails
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Enjoy Your Journey One Word At A TimeCapturing The Moment Given On The Page
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- Author Arlene Stafford-Wilson
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Unable to record their stories, they told tales of bravery and battles, around blazing fires, and sang songs about bountiful harvests and village heroes as they went about their daily work. These stories and songs were passed down from generation to generation, preserving their history, keeping memories alive.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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How many stories are there that have been lived, but will never be told? Far too many for me to squander the one that I’m living.
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- Author Sarah Blake
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Wars, plagues, names upon tombs tell us only what happened. But history lies in the cracks in between. In the inexplicable, invisible turns and decisions. A person saying no instead of yes. …It is not that they had lived…but how.
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- Author Joseph A. Amato
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The family historian must master the art of storytelling. What, after all, is truth without anecdote, history without events, explanation without narration--or yet life itself without a story? Stories are not just the wells from which we drink most deeply but at the same time the golden threads that hold and bind--Ariadne's precious string that leads us through the labyrinth that connects living present and the living past.
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- Author Joseph A. Amato
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Woven of fad and fancy, commerce and technology, war and revolution, freedom and necessity, our individual histories testify to the singular but crooked paths along which we traveled to the present.
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- Author Laurence Overmire
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No matter who our ancestors are, our own personal and monumental task is to become the best person that we can possibly be - someone in whom our own descendants in times to come can take great pride and find inspiration.
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- Author Laurence Overmire
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We live in a culture in which we are led to believe that anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.
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