85 Quotes About Genealogy
- Author Laurence Overmire
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There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
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- Author James G. Leyburn
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A person in search of his ancestors naturally likes to believe the best of them, and the best in terms of contemporary standards. Where genealogical facts are few, and these located in the remote past, reconstruction of family history is often more imaginative than correct.
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- Author Joshua Ferris
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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.
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- Author Rex Stout
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You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment
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- Author J.R. Tompkins
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History doesn’t move you more than when it’s in the iron of your own blood.
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- Author Amin Maalouf
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... the pursuit of origins is a way of rescuing territory from death and oblivion, a reconquest that ought to be patient, devoted, relentless and faithful.
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- Author Vivian LeMay
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He'd viewed the past like Uncle Joseph's grave, an empty hole without life, waiting to be filled in by him. It never occurred to him that Paradis, the Marais Foncé, or the ridge, existed before he had the eyes to see them, or that older people had once been young. Now his eyes were opened and he wanted to understand the past."Jean Baptiste, The Last Lord of Paradise––Generation Two
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- Author Edward Pearson Pressey
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It was an early saying here [Massachusetts] that there were 'Roots enough to plant Hampshire County and Gunns enough to defend them.
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- Author Toba Beta
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Politics is always related to the history and genealogy.
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