Quotes of: Family-history Keyword

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Where some see a new world disorder, others see the opportunity to bring organization.

What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Érase una vez un niño que amaba a una niña, y la risa de ella era como una pregunta que él quería pasar la vida contestando

The History of Love

I tried to make sense of things. Now that I think about it, I have always tried. It could be my epitaph. LEO GURSKY: HE TRIED TO MAKE SENSE.

The History of Love

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

The History of Love

Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist.

The History of Love

Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an exp...

Robert Penn Warren

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

One Foot in Eden

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery...

Tim Pawlenty

The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some...

Rick Atkinson

When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior ...

Alison Weir

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their histor...

Alison Weir

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

Celine Buckens