#trace

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#care #descent #did #genealogy #his

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now! ↗

— Angela Cartwright

#been #i #journey #now #quite

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#die #disappear #i #i think #just

The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#closer #even #foot #gets #great

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#difficult #parents #trace #very #your

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#diet #exercise #healthy #healthy diet #kids

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing. ↗

— Ford Frick

#honest #loafing #review #traceable #trouble

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#claim #confess #enough #err #errors

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #america #american #american writer #ancestry

If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#contraceptive #cost #coverage #does #health