Family Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

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

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it…

— John Lanchester

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is…

— Alanis Obomsawin

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

— Gabe Newell

“When telling the story of your life, it is of great value to recognize and focus on the details that reveal or inspire an…

— Scott Edmund Miller

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you…

— Anne Lamott

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

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

Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will…

— Frank Pittman

My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then…

— Derek Walcott

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same.…

— Diane Setterfield

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have…

— Elizabeth Edwards