Don't forget your history nor your destiny
Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?
I am writing history, and I can't be there.
Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.
Those who don't know history are destined to be tyrannized by it
In order to be written into History; one must first change it.
Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.
Wardaddy: Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.
People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.
Legend does not contradict history. It preserves the fundamental after but magnifies and embellishes it.
History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history
Cutting a tree down doesn't kill it; it erases it from history.
Fool's learn from experience. The wise learn from history.
There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren’t even a memory, you’re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and ...
Desolina and Tony had attended one-room schoolhouses until the third grade. ... According to Tony, there were hardly enough pencils and sober teachers to go around. [Author's grandparents educational background.]
Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
(Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.
Single parents - both women and men - can play as critical a role as the traditional two-parent family, and gay and lesbian parents can, and do, raise happy, resilient children. When it comes to family life, form is not merely as important as content...
Extended family is great. If you want to know how extended your family is, just go out and win the lottery. Your phone will be ringing nonstop. And you know I'll call you too, because I'm your fifth cousin on your father's side.
You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your control like that shouldn’t determine who you are. You must all realize what you’re worth o...
