Quotes of: Family-history Keyword

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Henry James

The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.

Henry M. Jackson

I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.

Henry Petroski

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

Harry Reid

Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.

Howard Schultz

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Harry S Truman

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Isaac Newton

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

Jacques Barzun

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.

Jo Beverley

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

John Barth

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Julia Bacha

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

James D'arcy

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

Jefferson Davis

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

James A. Garfield

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

Jeff Hawkins

That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.

Jonathan Harris

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Jerzy Kosinski

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

Jonathan Kozol

Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.

Jurgen Klinsmann

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

James Lovelock

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

Jill Lepore