Quotes of: Family-history Keyword

The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it ...

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Danny Vinyard: [arguing about his "Mein Kampf" paper] Look Sweeney, did you bring me here to talk about Derek? Because what happened to him has nothing to do with me. Bob Sweeney: Everything you do right now has something to do with Derek.

American History X

Derek Vinyard: [Voiceover on his needing to find a group to protect him. He strips to the waist to lift weights so others will see his swastika tattoo] All the wrong people knew who I was anyways, so I figured I'm just gonna put up a flag.

American History X

In Jump Time’s developing hybrid world, capacities once nurtured in separate societies are available to the entire family of humankind. This is a stupendous happening, as important as the discovery of new continents during the time of the great sea...

Jean Houston

Queen Gorgo: I am not here to represent Leonidas; his actions speak louder than my words ever could. I am here for all those voices which cannot be heard: mothers, daughters, fathers, sons - three hundred families that bleed for our rights, and for t...

300

For while they'd stayed close during the absurd years of his sharp rise, having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were li...

The Interestings

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

Ed Gillespie

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

Jack Nicklaus

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Karl Marx

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

Vivienne Westwood

None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.

Eat Now; Talk Later: 52 True Tales of Family, Feasting, and the American Dream

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. It will be a good thing for the Rougon family to be founded on a massacre, like many illustrious families." --Monsieur de Carnavant

The Fortune of the Rougons

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.

Begotten with Love: Every Family Has Its Story

I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.

Philip Reeve

By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still ...

Sal Albanese

If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you...

Gary Allan

If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder.

Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches

He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up.

An Amish Family Christmas

A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.

Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches

Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love