Elizabeth-gilbert Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process,…

— Bruce Feiler

When you think about it, a family's history can be really fragile, with significant stories we hope somebody in the next generation will remember…

— Steve Doocy

“We tend to know a lot about our parents’ lives, but our grandparents? The big events of their lives happened long before we were…

— Lauren K. Denton

“At a certain age our parents offhandedly start telling us things we’ve never heard before, about themselves and their families, their upbringing and history.…

— Tim Kreider

“Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly…

— Theodore Zeldin

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian…

— Susan Minot

“...we are trying, in a world of increasing complexity, to create a simpler and more understandable place for ourselves. No longer do we grow…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives”

— Michael Ondaatje

“Families are designed to nurture the minds, wills, and emotions of its members so that the barriers created by fear of the unknown can…

— Leigh A. Bortins

“In the past few years, genealogical research has become increasingly popular. Perhaps one of the reasons for this is that we are trying, in…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“It’s such a relief to know these are universal truths for so many of us in the adoption triad. Gosh, how much easier things…

— Paula Gruben

“Although the social science construction of reality tends to emphasize how families differ from one another, I began to see that knowledge of what…

— Edwin H. Friedman