Family Quote by Monica McGoldrick

We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can't avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable degree. We…

— Russell Banks

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

“History buried becomes history repeated. A whole generation of Africans have been denied the truth of their own history, and so we do not…

— Shailja Patel

“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted…

— Tudor Parfitt

“Our family history was erased and rewritten a thousand times.”

— Lisa Kleypas

“It is ashamed that history isolates things that are common to a large populace, but families don’t disperse generational history to prevent their descendants…

— Stephen and Tiffany Domena

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

— John McCain

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

You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher…

— Leif Enger

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

— Hannah Arendt

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

— John Cage

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

— Carlos Castaneda