I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.
Don't be afraid to try new things, because I just tried shot put not knowing my family history behind it, and trying it led me to the rest of my life.
I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.
In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.
The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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.
The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.
The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.
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.
I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.
My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
The Carter family history means a lot to me.
I'm just so proud to be from San Francisco and to have a family history there. It's only two generations back, but still, it's two generations in San Francisco. I love it. I'm so proud of it.
In the 1970s, family history wasn't yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by other historians. I called my book 'The Social Origins of Private Life.' It should have been 'As Pompous as You Want to Be.' Every sentence was academic jargon, and if I said X, I qualified it with Y.
One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.
