About Quote by Christopher Gist

We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately,…

— Jimmy Carter

We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the…

— Charles Sturt

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.

— Vincent Schiavelli

We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place,…

— John Woolman

I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me,…

— Luanne Rice

“It had been along time since I breached the surface of the world above. My parents wouldn’t allow it. So as far as I…

— Lauren Hammond

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came…

— Stephen King

The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and…

— Christopher Gist

Hundreds have looked for you and died searching in this garden where you hide behind the scenes. But this pain is not for those…

— Ritu Ghatourey

What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time…

— Pinetop Perkins

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder