Chapters Quote by Max Lucado

I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think that they…

— Joyce Carol Oates

You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the…

— Douglas Coupland

“Unfortunately it is not possible to destroy our history. It lives inside us, probably the more powerful for our attempts to bury it. We…

— Monica McGoldrick

“Your family's history does not have to be your future legacy!”

— Jayce O'Neal

If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss and decay,…

— Kerry James Marshall

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

— Douglas Coupland

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

— Robin Hobb

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

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

— George W. Bush

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

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a…

— Meshell Ndegeocello

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.

— Robert Henri