{"quotes":[{"text":"I don't know who my grandfather was  I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.","author":"Abraham Lincoln","tags":["family","ancestry"],"id":3377,"author_id":"Abraham+Lincoln"},{"text":"Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.","author":"Joe Cook","tags":["family","ancestry"],"id":3941,"author_id":"Joe+Cook"},{"text":"Genealogy was her favorite insanity.","author":"Trollope Anthony 1815-1882","tags":["ancestry","pride"],"id":18381,"author_id":"Trollope+Anthony+1815-1882"},{"text":"It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.","author":"Tahir Shah","tags":["africa","ancestry","middle-east"],"id":21491,"author_id":"Tahir+Shah"},{"text":"When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was hearing. I had to, or I never would have made it past the first letter. If I stopped to think about my Grandpa writing to my Grandma, knowing how much he loved her and how many years he spent without her after her death, I knew I wouldn’t be able to make it through just one letter without an onslaught of tears. And it was Grandpa, a voice I knew so well. One that I miss terribly.","author":"Kara Martinelli","tags":["ancestry","friendship","longing","love","wwii-history"],"id":26071,"author_id":"Kara+Martinelli"},{"text":"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["ancestry"],"id":31870,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.","author":"Raquel Cepeda","tags":["ancestors","ancestry","build","building-blocks","globe-trotting","inspiration","journey","life-experience","morocco","sahara","sahara-desert","sand","spiritual-journey","trek","trekking"],"id":41471,"author_id":"Raquel+Cepeda"},{"text":"My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The arrow of natural history won’t be reversed: by now the Jonathan’s as much an American as I am.","author":"Michael Pollan","tags":["ancestry","food","origins"],"id":41764,"author_id":"Michael+Pollan"},{"text":"After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...","author":"Walter de la Mare","tags":["ancestry","death"],"id":44807,"author_id":"Walter+de+la+Mare"},{"text":"Our names were made for us in another century.","author":"Richard Brautigan","tags":["ancestry","freedom","names","time"],"id":54121,"author_id":"Richard+Brautigan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":68,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}