Quotes of: Family-history Keyword

'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

Yara Shahidi

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

Shawn Amos

This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the proper time. For now it is enough that they have arrived. As the dance is the thing with which we are concerned and contains complete ...

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Who that has ever visited the borders of this classic sea, has not felt at the first sight of its waters a glow of reverent rapture akin to devotion, and an instinctive sensation of thanksgiving at being permitted to stand before these hallowed waves...

The Natural History of the European Seas

The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed. This fact would be fully substantiated if the integral history of Islamic science and civilization were to be written one da...

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family n...

Eat, Pray, Love

A dog shows affection even to a poor family.

Chinese

Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.

Ethiopian

None but a mule denies his family.

Saudi Arabian

I always hear people talk about 'dysfunctional families.' It annoys me, because it makes you think that somewhere there's this magical family where everyone gets along, and no one ever screams things they don't mean, and there's never a time when sha...

Antsy Does Time

A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her dreaming private life—the nation, the city, the ...

An American Childhood

When we are babies...we need an authoritative figure to guide and take care of us. We ask no questions about that authority and imagine that the small circumference of family life is the limit of the universe...As we mature, our horizon expands and w...

The Lifeboat

But witnesses incur responsibilities, as anyone who has ever seen a traffic accident and had to go to court to testify, knows. In the new world of globally televised war crimes, the defence of 'not knowing,' or neutrality, will dissolve for everyone....

Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History

The winner takes all mindset at the root of capitalism is a poison if left unchecked. That’s not to say capitalism is bad per sē, or that a more refined version of it cannot work effectively. Nor does it mean the world should move toward socialism...

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no thanks for 400+ years of free labor, forced servitude across the Trans-Atlantic, ass beatings, buy...

Brandi L. Bates

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

History boring, Janice concurred, undaunted as usual. It’s not like the Ride of the Valkyries. It’s what comes history that isn’t boring.

Duplex

Can we love what will swallow us when we are gone? I do.

Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

[P]ower is at its most potent when it can operate silently.

Early Modern England: A Social History 1550 1760

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians