Family History Quotes - Page 2

• In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

  Alex Haley

  Heritage, Who We Are, Lineage

  Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

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• The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Family, Brother

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.23, MIT Press

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• In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

  Alex Haley

  Inspirational, Family, Meaningful

  "Traits of a Healthy Family" by Dolores Curran, (p. 199), 1985.

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• The past is not dead - it isn't even past

  Christa Wolf

  Inspirational, Past, Genealogy

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• I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Fathers Day, Future

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Family, Dance

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• 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.

  Bruce Feiler

  Children, Emotional, Play

  "5 Secrets to a Happy Family" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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• We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Mistake, Experts, Novices

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

  Iphicrates

  Kids, My Family, Ends

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• Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don't tend to talk.

  Chris Cleave

  Survivor, Weight, Veteran

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Soap operas got nothing on my family history.

  Kiersten White

  Opera, Soap, My Family

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• Many people don’t realize the extent to which stories influence our behavior and even shape our culture. Think about how Bible stories teach the fundamentals of religion and rules of conduct. Think of the fables and parables that molded your values. Think of how stories about your national, cultural or family history have shaped your attitudes about yourself and others.

  Lawrence Shapiro

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Men, Doubt

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• It sounds funny to say, but we saw [Kate's wedding to Prince William] as just a family wedding. And actually, I didn't realize - perhaps - the scale of it until afterwards. We all took on the roles as any family would.

  Pippa Middleton

  Family, Reality, History

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• A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Father, Writing

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

  Robert De Niro

  Regret, Kids

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• It was always so important to my dad for us to understand about the Genocide and to know about our family history.

  Kim Kardashian

  Dad, Important, Genocide

  "'This is like a miracle': Kim Kardashian tells sister Khloe that she's pregnant with second child on season premiere of KUWTK". www.dailymail.co.uk. September 21, 2015.

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• 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

  Hartman Rector, Jr.

  Children, Father, Believe

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• I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years
  ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always enjoyed tracing family
  history.

  Nola Ochs

  Years, Records, Research

  Source: www.mybestyears.com

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• My great-great grandmother who came from Norway to America came for economic freedom, but importantly she also came for religious freedom. It is part of my family history, why they came to America: for the freedom to practice their own religion without the government interfering with it.

  Steve Daines

  Religious, Grandmother, Government

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first and second World Wars. Unfortunately, they're dead and I wasn't able to speak to them, but that was in our family history too.

  PJ Harvey

  Mother, Father, War

  Source: www.wfuv.org

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• Hillary Clinton and her husband, the former president, are of course by all measures quite wealthy as well, having earned tens of millions of dollars in book royalties and speaking fees in recent years. Which is why in speeches, she leans heavily on her family history.

  Tamara Keith

  Husband, Book, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families' histories, and how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history. Then it is no longer abstract. Then it becomes a story that really means something to us as individuals.

  Adele Logan Alexander

  Mean, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• 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.

  Robert Barry

  Aunt, Parent, My Family

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• You take somebody - one person has definitely got autism, you got another person that maybe has some of those traits and maybe there's some anxiety, depression, some epilepsy or something in the family history. Put them together, you're more likely to have a severely autistic kid than if you don't have any neurological problems in the family history.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Epilepsy, Autism

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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