Quotes of: Family-history Keyword

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

Alvin Journeyman

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Angle of Repose

I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.

River Marked

Jules Tygiel’s Past Time: Baseball As History

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

The Nature Of Natural History

The brave soldiers die. The cowards survive and write the history.

The New Land

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

The Lessons of History

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

The Sun Watches the Sun

The very word 'history' conjured a dull success of thrones and murderous clerical wrangling.

Sweet Tooth

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

The Poisonwood Bible

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

The River of Winged Dreams

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

Uglies

History is the memory of States.

A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-1822

Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.

Words of Radiance

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

White Teeth

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

George Saintsbury

History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device.

Josh Fox

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

Jon Meacham

There's a lot of tension in London, but then you realize it's always been there, in its history, and that the best thing about London, that there's always been this tension.

King Krule

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

Assassination Vacation

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

Jean-André de Luc