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He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
The past is not dead - it isn't even past
A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.
The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.
I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.
We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.
In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be one role the poet has.
My dad, who likes genealogy, knows who was the first guy that came from France in 1655, and the guy settled in Montreal, and Montreal is an island where the city is in Quebec.
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.
One of the things that's interesting about black culture is we don't know about our heritage and about our genealogy because it was taken from us. So all that we have is we're black. That's where we start.
It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees. Official census records, used by so many genealogy enthusiasts to piece together their families' pasts, don't include our non-European ancestors.
Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.