Buried Quote by Henry Louis Gates Download Open image “There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.” — Henry Louis Gates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Buried Family Just Many Stories Tree Trees
Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years,… — Am Homes Copy Share Image
Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them.… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years,… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job. — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
“Over the years, certain stories in the history of a family take hold. They're passed from generation to generation, gaining substance and meaning along… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job. — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves. — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black? — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by… — Jean-Louis Barrault Copy Share Image
We're going to be buried out here. I like the idea because I may just want to get up some day and stroll into… — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“Sienna swallowed down her hurt and added it to the growing infestation of pain placed it in that beating glass jar of hers, concealed… — Ali Harper Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so difficult to arrive at as the nature and personality of one's parents. Death, about which so much mystery is made,is… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old… — Laura Haddock Copy Share Image
As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
While the prosecution has said this is about the defendants lies, one worries that those lies already have been buried under too much discussion… — David Berg Copy Share Image
With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays— there let… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
