I realized my family was famous because I was looking in…

“When I was a wee little kid," remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, "there was a time I thought that any skinny old man…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

One thing to remember when you're successful, famous, whatever you want to call it - well-known, not that well-known - whatever you want to…

— Louie Anderson

“The sketches in the back are not of a girl that looks like you, Rowan. They are of you. I drew them." "These are…

— Tara A. Fuller

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how…

— Anonymous

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

— Ani DiFranco

“He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back — its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.”

— Gish Jen

Humans are pattern-seeking animals, consciously and subconsciously imposing designs and theories on to past events. We do this in both our private lives and…

— David Olusoga

The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are…

— Dan Brown

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice.…

— George Papandreou

“The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.”

— Cristina García

I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his…

— King Hussein I

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

— Lorine Niedecker

“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made…

— Wendell Berry

Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble…

— Alice Sebold

I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the…

— Karen Hawkins