{"id":1273,"date":"2015-02-19T22:27:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T05:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2015-02-19T22:29:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T05:29:11","slug":"15-genealogy-quotes-we-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/general\/15-genealogy-quotes-we-love\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Genealogy Quotes We Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/familyhistorydaily.com\/family-history\/15-genealogy-quotes-love\/#sthash.1Ol6ATej.xptt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/sources.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyhistorydaily.com\/family-history\/15-genealogy-quotes-love\/#sthash.1Ol6ATej.xptt\">15 Genealogy Quotes We Love<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Here are 15 of our favorite quotes about family history. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Every man<\/strong> is a quotation from all his ancestors. \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are lucky<\/strong> enough to be a genealogist, you are lucky enough. \u2013 Ruth Padilla<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friends come<\/strong> and go, but relatives tend to accumulate. \u2013 Unknown<\/p>\n<p><strong>The past is<\/strong> not dead. It isn\u2019t even past. \u2013 William Faulkner<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genealogy<\/strong>: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living. \u2013 Unknown<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is no<\/strong> king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. \u2013 Helen Keller<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you don\u2019t know history<\/strong>, you don\u2019t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn\u2019t know it is part of a tree. \u2013 Michael Crichton<\/p>\n<p><strong>We inherit from<\/strong> our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted. Each of us contains within this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise. \u2013 Edward Sellner<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research is what<\/strong> I\u2019m doing when I don\u2019t what I\u2019m doing \u2013 Wernher von Braun<\/p>\n<p><strong>We need to haunt<\/strong> the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors wisdom. \u2013 Maya Angelou<\/p>\n<p><strong>To forget<\/strong> one\u2019s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root. \u2013 Chinese Porverb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some family trees<\/strong> have beautiful leaves, and some have just a bunch of nuts. Remember, it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking. \u2013 Unknown<\/p>\n<p><strong>If we tried to sink<\/strong> the past beneath our feet, be sure the future would not stand. \u2013 Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most of our ancestors<\/strong> were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren\u2019t even mammals. \u2013 Robert Anton Wilson<\/p>\n<p><strong>The thing that interests<\/strong> me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities. \u2013 Jeremy Hardy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why waste your<\/strong> money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. \u2013 Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/familyhistorydaily.com\/family-history\/15-genealogy-quotes-love\/#sthash.1Ol6ATej.0UMQjjsl.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 Genealogy Quotes We Love: Here are 15 of our favorite quotes about family history. Enjoy! Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson If you are lucky enough to be a genealogist, you are lucky enough. \u2013 Ruth Padilla Friends come and go, but relatives tend to accumulate. \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4JFvt-kx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}