Founding fathers Quote by Tara Conklin

“Why didn't Lina know their names? Why hadn't she studied their histories? Where was the monument? Where was the museum? What had they wished…

— Tara Conklin

“They say that I bring back the past; For instance, Helen comes, Brushing the maggots from her eyes, And, clearing her throat of several…

— Christopher Fry

Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the…

— Nicholas Sparks

“And she didn’t want the first major address of what could be a history-making campaign to be set against a minimalistic backdrop like some…

— Jonathan Allen

“Everyone else out there in the world knew who they were, they carried their histories inside them everywhere they went; whereas she was just…

— Lucinda Riley

“She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich New Yorker…

— Penelope Lively

“With their passing, they took the memories of an age when America was in her infancy. They experienced the turmoil and the trials of…

— Ann Lee

“History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn’t change where you were from. But still, you didn’t have to stay there. You didn’t have to…

— Kami Garcia

“I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls…

— Joshua Ferris

“She was one of those quiet heroes that we have all across America.They’re not famous. Their names are not in the newspapers, but each…

— Barack Obama

“So strange don't you think? To ascend to such a high position in your lifetime and then be totally forgotten? I mean, who even…

— Adam Sternbergh

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

— Anna Brownell Jameson