Quotes of: Family-history Keyword

One of the things that happens in the world is that people try to conflict. Whereas in the home, you can't. You'll end up getting divorced or becoming estranged from your kids. Keep in mind, the hardest part of any negotiation is agreeing to start it...

The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More

If you turn into a dog, be sure to choose a rich family.

Japanese

I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatment's the easy part. Without honesty, without a true family reckoning, that salt's next to worthless.

Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another and building a successful family is like building a home. A successful family based on unity, forgiveness and love takes careful planning, but it's worth every moment.

PT. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father

[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

A Promise to Ourselves: Fatherhood, Divorce, and Family Law

I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decis...

Carl Hagelin

Our family makes us who we are, defines us totally. When you go to a therapist or have analysis, whatever reason you go in for, they will always bring you back to your family. We're strong or weak according to what family we have. You might have left...

Sandrine Bonnaire

You did not invent these family habits. Your family is like mine, for thousands and thousands of years our families have embraced a dysfunctional lifestyle, passing these habits as gospel on to subsequent generations. This was not done out of malice,...

David W. Earle

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Collected Essays

In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and you will be at peace.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

You did love me," I whispered. "Just not the same way I loved you.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

News flash, Bozo. Don't ever tell a girl to relax. It only makes us madder.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

Darkness at Noon

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.

The Early History of Rome:

Australian History: .... does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.

Following the Equator - Part 7

Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations.

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

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

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

The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.

At Faith's End

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest