Quotes of: Family-history Keyword

At a certain age our parents offhandedly start telling us things we’ve never heard before, about themselves and their families, their upbringing and history. They’re turning their lives into stories, trying to make sense of them in retrospect and...

We Learn Nothing

What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. These inventions illuminate the negative spaces of...

We Learn Nothing

Sure, genetics do play a role in alcoholism. You're more likely to be an alcoholic if one or both of your parents are also alcoholics. But that's just one part of the equation; the other part is your behavior. You can't become an alcoholic if you nev...

Gaby Rodriguez

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another" - Rudge

The History Boys

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

The History Boys

She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.

The History of History

It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write.

A History Of The World In 100 Objects

Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right.

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Soccer Tactics

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The Sociological Imagination

If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!

Little Miss History Travel Series

In the history of the world, we have left our footprints by our unique stories.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.

The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Newt Gingrich

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Albert Schweitzer

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

Chad Harbach

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

Henry Louis Gates

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

James Ellroy

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

Marty Meehan

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

Paul Begala

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

Pearl Cleage

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

Ralph Bakshi