Quotes About History

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

Girls, I need to tell you some things about our family," Sabrina said. "Have you ever heard of the Brothers Grimm?

Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

I think of the Kennedy family and I think of their faith... Along came John F. Kennedy and a part of his legacy is that... he didn't just break the Catholic barrier, he crushed it.

I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.

I personally believe that the writing of personal and family histories will do more to turn the hearts of the children to the fathers and the fathers to children than almost anything we can do

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

There are secrets in all families, you know.

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.

Never brag about your ancestors coming over on the Mayflower the immigration laws weren't as strict in those days.

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.