America Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history…

— Adele Logan Alexander

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

— John Sedgwick

Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and…

— Max Lucado

America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these people will…

— Nas

I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.

— Julie Salamon

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and…

— Oprah Winfrey

“The United States is a conceited nation with shallow roots, and what happened before living memory doesn't seem to interest most people I know…

— Katharine Weber

Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my particular sensibilities.…

— Laurie Graham

It's hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique. It's my family. The fact that there have been difficulties and hardships,…

— John F. Kennedy Jr

I'm trying to tell the story of the evolution of America. Each biography is a life in time, and I can see there's a…

— H. W. Brands

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was…

— Katherine Anne Porter

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about…

— Jennifer Donnelly