Banking Quote by John Steele Gordon

In the U.S. more than any other place, the banking system is insane. Millions of Americans lost their houses. Because of what? Because of…

— Costa-Gavras

“Von Pein’s family was a little known, but highly influential entity within American banking circles. Banking Royalty, some called it. His grandfather had been…

— James Morcan

Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.

— Martin Mayer

“I do not believe in the power of brand names or in emulating any of the brand name investors out there. It is a…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure…

— Robert Heilbroner

Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure…

— Robert Heilbroner

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

— Christa Wolf

“Genealogy becomes a mania, an obsessive struggle to penetrate the past and snatch meaning from an infinity of names. At some point the search…

— Henry Wiencek

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes…

— Virgilia Peterson

In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be…

— Kevin Young

Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for…

— Rebecca Solnit

“All of our ancestors live within each one of us whether we are aware of it or not.”

— Laurence Overmire

We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as a compendium…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on.”

— Jo Ann V. Glim

The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself…

— Tom Brown, Jr