Orson Scott Card  - Quotes

 Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to. 

Tags: community   genealogy   persona     


Joan Didion  - Quotes

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

Tags: genealogy   history     
Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way of the Levant, and passing through Eastern and Central Europe before crossing to the British Isles. And all of this knowable by an analysis of the cells on the inside of my mouth.



I almost prefer the more rambling and indirect and journalistic investigation, which seems somehow less
 

Tags: africa   ancestry   determinism   genealogy   genetics   history   investigation   journalism   levant   savanna     


Barbara Kingsolver  - Quotes

 Every family's its own trip to China. 

Tags: genealogy   relations     
Thomas Carlyle  - Quotes

 History is the essence of innumerable biographies. 

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