Quotes of: Family-history Keyword

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but re...

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Oogway: [walking towards Po] Ah! I see that you have found the Sacred Peach Tree of Heavenly Wisdom! Po: [Po turns around with a lot of peaches stuffed in his mouth] Is that what this is? I'm so sorry! I just thought it was a regular peach tree! Oogw...

Kung Fu Panda

When you come back from a trip bring something for the family -- even if it is only a stone.

Lebanese

The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.

Ernst Zundel

And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an appointed course; the refreshing inn after a fatiguing journey; the end of a life of cares and troubles; and, if happy, the beginning of a life of immo...

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady

I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I feel for days and weeks and what felt like lifetime across lifetimes. I fell until I forgot I was falling.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

We [Americans] became a nation of java junkies, wired from dawn to dusk intent on running faster, getting richer, dancing harder, playing longer and getting higher than anybody else.

The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

In short, this or that behavior wasn't good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good, and if it was already good before scripture said so, then it was good for some reason inherent to itself, some reason...

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes

In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to expected and prize it.

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy.

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of peace and prosperity.

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island, they had learnt how to deal with history, how to sling it carelessly on your back and stride out across the download wi...

England, England

Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.

Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

A book is like a key that fits into the tumbler of the soul. The two parts have to match in order for each to unlock. Then— —a world opens.

Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat

[...] for the philosophy of Square rendered him superior to all emotions, and he very calmly smoaked his pipe, as was his custom in all broils, unless when he apprehended some danger of having it broke in his mouth.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective.

A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and the present, an argument between what actually happened, and what is going to happen next. Arguments are important; ...

History: A Very Short Introduction