Personal History Quotes

• No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Men, Poet

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.781, Library of America

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• And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

  Emily Giffin

  Memories, Soul, Share

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• It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

  Carlos Castaneda

  People, Historical, Erase

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “Journey to Ixtlan: the Lessons of Don Juan”, [Vancouver, B.C.] : Vancouver Taped Books Project

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• We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Music, Teacher, Mirrors

  "The post-authentic world". "Future Tense" with Antony Funnell, www.abc.net.au. September 23, 2012.

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  Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Grandma, Feelings, Tribes

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• I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think that they had a resilience and an integrity that may be somewhat deficient in my own generation, and in subsequent generations as well, because America has been rather easy to live in since the Depression.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Integrity, Thinking, America

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The sacred cannot be precisely defined. Each of us perceives it through the lens of a unique personal history. For me, sacredness is an experience of the inner radiance of life, the unseen force that transforms and nourishes the physical world but is never limited by it. There is something more to it, a mystery that is never totally grasped.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Unique, Unseen, Lenses

  Anthony Lawlor (1994). “The Temple in the House: Finding the Sacred in Everyday Architecture”, Tarcher

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• Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Book, Dreamer, Pieces

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• Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Father, Party, Writing

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• You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid.

  Frederick Lenz

  Commitment, Self, Want

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• The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.

  Alan Lightman

  Powerful, Father, Book

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• Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

  Beatrice Webb

  Running, Ego, Daily Life

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Real, Order, Needed

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• We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love towards people who would be very suitable. Love is involuntary, that's the problem. Our personal histories prepare us to be attracted to people who unconsciously evoke emotions from our childhood or adolescence.

  François Lelord

  Falling In Love, Love Is, People

  François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.24, Gallic Books

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• New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

  Jonathan Dee

  New York, Synthesis, Subjectivity

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• Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.

  Thomas Keating

  Names, Self, Childhood

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• God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

  Margaret Clarkson

  Lord, Members, Humans

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• Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

  John Thorn

  Father, Son, Years

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• I strive to view my students as unique human beings all of whom come to my classroom with a personal history, cultural perceptions and traditions, goals and aspirations as well as fears and insecurities. By employing the principles of Personalization, I am able to connect with my students in a genuine way in order to build trust, respect and rapport in the classroom.

  Joe Harris

  Unique, Order, Views

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• A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.

  Alfred Austin

  Character, Garden, Taste

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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• I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.

  Julie Salamon

  Form, Force, Fascinated

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• Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

  Dave Grohl

  Hands, Play, Happens

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• I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

  K. D. Lang

  Couple, Believe, Decide Upon

  "What I know about women". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and the fruits of a lifetime of -- in her perfect phrase - extreme reading. The voice is a hoot, and it is dead serious. This is writing with exquisite control, fully up to the task Brown takes on of playing a fierce game of beach ball with deep problems of American (and personal) history and identity.

  Susan Stinson

  Beach, Book, Reading

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• A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

  B. F. Skinner

  Mind, Evolution, Said

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