Quotes About History

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

One regret I have: I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids.

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

I'm from such an old family, it's been condemned.

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

A family is a mystery.

Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.