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