“Who we are takes generations to create and doesn’t end with death.” — Stanley Siegel Copy Share Image
The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history. — Louise Erdrich 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
When you think about it, a family's history can be really fragile, with significant stories we hope somebody in the next generation… — Steve Doocy Copy Share Image
“Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Use Black History month as an opportunity to tell your family history as far back as you can go. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Falconers,” she continued, sternly. “Pull yourselves together. People are dying. The police don’t have the family history to solve murders forty years… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
“I’d never be more than a toy to him, and the men in his family had a history of breaking their toys.… — Joanna Wylde Copy Share Image
“It’s important to teach our children their heritage. Who are your ancestors? What were their traditions? Each of us has a story… — Linda Weaver Clarke Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I'm just so proud to be from San Francisco and to have a family history there. It's only two generations back, but… — Jamie Chung Copy Share Image
My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my… — Brian Acton Copy Share Image
“Walshes had been taking advantage of gullibility and stupidity ever since they conned their fellow cavemen out of their spears. Highwaymen, pirates,… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I personally believe that the writing of personal and family histories will do more to turn the hearts of the children to… — Hartman Rector, Jr Copy Share Image
I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As to the "traditional filler of twenty-first century realist fiction," maybe that is something I avoid. I don't relate to standard psychologizing… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“We have seen that the individual’s brain circuits are decisively influenced by the emotional states of the parents, in the context of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
You take somebody - one person has definitely got autism, you got another person that maybe has some of those traits and… — Temple Grandin 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
“the more children knew about their family history, the stronger their sense of control over their lives, the higher their self-esteem and… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“My dad takes most of the pictures in our family, and he makes scrapbooks. This means he gets to figure out what's… — Holly Goldberg Sloan 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
“and some other shit, and the wife—can’t remember her name—would cry a lot. The kids were young. Three of them. They were… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
“Gabriel was stunned by Pandora's compassion for a man who had caused her such harm. He shook his head in wonder as… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“What happens to a man who loses more than half of himself? Ron Lester has searched for the answer since December 2000,… — Billy Bob's Blues Copy Share Image
“Our deeply-rooted beliefs about the wholesomeness of milk and dairy products should be re-considered under careful, scientific evaluation. Given the tumor promotor… — Bodo Melnik Copy Share Image
“They" are farmers and ranchers, though generally not those from the front row of the church, that select few who remain in… — Lisa M. Hamilton 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
“To the men and women who changed Cheryl Hersha's life, she was a continuation of the research that had first been conducted… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
“Sure, genetics do play a role in alcholism. You're more likely to be an alcoholic if one or both of your parents… — Gaby Rodriguez Copy Share Image
