“..what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel. And the skeleton of a house can… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history. — Lynsi Torres Copy Share Image
I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it.… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
“It's interesting that my neighbor Irv, who saw dogs so differently, knew all the kids and people on the block and could… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
“Some families, Katie told us, are devil-haunted; it's a curse a family can never shake off. Maybe it's something terrible in the… — Seamus Deane Copy Share Image
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes… — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer.… — Nola Ochs Copy Share Image
If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Demond’s family history wasn’t so different from my own, did that mean we were living the same story over and over again,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Had I been brought to America a few years earlier, I might have written that in such and such a year my… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
“My family tree has many branches, both living and dead... but all equally important. I cherish the memories that make its roots… — Lynda I Fisher Copy Share Image
It sounds funny to say, but we saw [Kate's wedding to Prince William] as just a family wedding. And actually, I didn't… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
I'm all about the story. And the stories I remember tend to be the ones of sorrow, or family history, or revelation… — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
“My first example concerns Satan’s efforts to corrupt a person who has an unusual commitment to one particular doctrine or commandment of… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to historical events, so to get the chance to research our family history… — Ant McPartlin Copy Share Image
Many people don’t realize the extent to which stories influence our behavior and even shape our culture. Think about how Bible stories… — Lawrence Shapiro Copy Share Image
Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
“Why had I chosen the path of the law? And why law of the kind that seemed to be connected to an… — Philippe Sands Copy Share Image
I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised. — Rue McClanahan Copy Share Image
Plenty of people are intrigued by their family history. Growing up as the son of West Indian immigrants who moved to London… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
