Quotes of: Family-history Keyword

[S]ince the dawn of civilization, getting in-laws has been one of marriage's most important functions.

Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time

The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.

The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg

Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.

The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]

The Life and Love of the Insect

The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians

Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive the or imaginary the foe, the better for manufacturing consent.

A Short History of Progress

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

When my father wrote about fate, I think he was writing about the reality that is, when there are so many other realities that could have been.

A Partial History of Lost Causes

There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere.

Pretty Vacant: A History of UK Punk

A writer in early 1930, boosting the beauty business, started off a magazine article with the sentence: "The average American woman has sixteen square feet of skin.

A People's History of the United States

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

Vicars of Christ: A History of the Popes

The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as 'the decline and fall of red' or 'the rise and triumph of yellow'.

Villains' Paradise: A History of Britain's Underworld

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) - and arriving at the art of integration (finding the sum of the infinitesimals) can we hope to discover the laws of hi...

War and Peace

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War