Quotes About Narrative

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

History is one damn thing after another.

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

We are the hero of our own story.

Every time a girl refuses to eat, she one-ups Eve.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Kitty's always saying how origin stories are important. At college, when people ask us how we met, how will we answer them? The short story is, we grew up together. But that's more Josh's and my story. High school sweet-hearts? That's Peter and Gen's story. So what's ours, then? I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter.

It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.

This is our story.

En la universidad, cuando las personas nos pregunten cómo nos conocimos, ¿Cómo les responderemos? La historia es: Crecimos juntos. Pero esa era más la historia con Josh. ¿Novios de preparatoria? Esa era la historia de Gen y Peter. Así que la nuestra ¿Cuál era? Supongo que diré que todo comenzó con una carta de amor.

Although history is concerned with the past, it is conducted in the present.