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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

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. — Douglas Coupland

You mustn't throw them away. Let me have them. — Diane Samuels

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

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. — Jeremy Hardy

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you? — Mary Pipher

You cannot go to the cemetery and ask to be enlightened on matters of this kind, though it would ease my mind considerably if you could. — William Maxwell

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

If you're looking for family entertainment, don't study history or prehistory. — Peter Frost

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family. — Bobby Flay

All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along. — Karen Chamberlain

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history. — Charles Burnett

Why in the midst of great events there always seems to be a family so misnamed is one of the imponderables of history. — Erik Larson

I've got a long history of suicid in my family; the good news is it skips a generation, so, if I'm lucky, my kids will kill themselves. — Anthony Jeselnik

Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it. — Diane Samuels

Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about. — Vik Muniz

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work ... Finding family members ... can bring immense joy. — Russell M. Nelson

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. — Dennis Prager

The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history. — Debi Mazar

When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears. — Paul Lutus

Digging through my roots to understand the way my branches grew. — Saleem Haddad

It was frustrating and exhausting to gather bits of disconnected information without understanding how it all fitted together. — Wendy Percival

Your family's history does not have to be your future legacy! — Jayce O'Neal

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised. — Rue McClanahan

It's easy to discount family. It's easy to take them for granted. But your family is your history. Your family is part of who you are. — Sophie Kinsella

The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest. — P.J. Parker

There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family. — Brian Cox

Who we are takes generations to create and doesn't end with death. — Stanley Siegel

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home' ... — Julian Barnes

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India. — Trevor McDonald

One can discourage too much history in one's family, but one cannot always prevent geography. — Saki

My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex. — Donald Tusk

What is there in this big wide world for a man to talk about with certainty besides his homeland, home and family? — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family. — Novak Djokovic

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself. — Julie Andrews

Understanding anyone begins with the person's family history and the culture he or she is a part of. — Pat Brown

There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation. — Pawan Mishra

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum. — Paul McCartney

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

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality. — Wes Bentley

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family. — Margaret Clarkson

Soap operas got nothing on my family history. — Kiersten White

I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family. — Ben Stiller

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land. — Moshe Katsav

Humor has always been the redemptive angel in the Conroys's sad history. With this family, I shall never grow hungry from lack of material. — Pat Conroy

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

Grandparents ... can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history ... — Jim Conway

We teach in our cultural history that the entire universe is a family. So our association with Nature is much deeper and of a very different kind. — Narendra Modi

History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill — Ron Mayes

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history. — Sol Luckman

He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [ ... ] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22] — John Burnside

Destiny doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you're ready, whether you know it or not. — Kelly Thompson

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents. — Allan Sherman

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out. — Temple Grandin

Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story. — Baltasar Kormakur

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

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated. — Caitlin Flanagan

Your family are the people who pester you until you do the right thing. — Jeanne Gehret

Suddenly, in my mind I hear my father say, 'Mind over matter, son. You can do this. You can accomplish anything as long as you really want to. — Marc Ashton

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself. — John Sedgwick

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history. — Rachel Bilson

Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now. — J. Valor

I'd never be more than a toy to him, and the men in his family had a history of breaking their toys.
They just did it in different ways. — Joanna Wylde

The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness. — Stuart Haddon

Never judge someone by their relatives. — Charles Martin

Family isn't a matter of history. Or biology," he said softly. "It's a matter of choice. — Courtney Milan

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

In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that. — Lucy Foley

What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.' — Shayne Ward

There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level. — Matt Smith

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

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves. — Gabe Newell

Everyone has a story. Every story matters. — Nicole Wedemeyer Miller

Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now. — Max Lucado

An overnight success is usally twenty years in the making! — T.I. Wade

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history. — Louise Erdrich

I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie. — Zona Gale

Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes. — Cristina Saralegui

Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel. — Christina Baker Kline

Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history. — Lynsi Torres

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong. — Kelly Ripa

Japan surprised almost everyone but Marty with their attack on Pearl Harbor, — Karen Wardamasky Bobrow