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There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees. -- Henry Louis Gates
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. -- Henry Louis Gates
Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts. -- Wayne Huizenga
Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies [evolutionary family trees]. In this it has utterly failed. -- Norman Macbeth
We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA. -- Henry Louis Gates
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. -- Rodney Dangerfield
My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree. -- Henry Louis Gates
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. -- Fred Allen
I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses. -- Martin Freeman
I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.' -- Dionne Warwick
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. -- Henry Louis Gates
All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it. -- Donald Johanson
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. -- Chanakya
My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. -- Casey Affleck
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor. -- Hugo Chavez
Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend. -- Kara Lindsay
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. -- Moshe Dayan
I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents. -- Danny Meyer
The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families. -- Thaksin Shinawatra
For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry. -- Malaika Arora Khan
Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little. -- Malaika Arora Khan
Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds. -- Esai Morales
Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name. -- Stephen Vincent Benet

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