Top 1200 Family History Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family - the biblical definition of the family unit.

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.

I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up.

The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.

That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

The people of the Balkans are like a dysfunctional family. We may fight and argue, but in the end we are family.

If I make history, I don't need to blab about it. My first concern is not 'making history,' it's myself and becoming world champion. That's all I care about.

The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company.

I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

I think the idea of family and protecting the family is something that ties a lot of these women together.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

It's not my intent to write definitive history. 'Dead Wake' isn't a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It's my account.

It's true that in my family, everyone loves football. So it's great to have a family that's united behind you and doesn't leave you.

This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.

First Family on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

When we look at each other, we're the same family. You don't have to see black or Latino - we're one family. That's America.

I love the history of the sport and I want to keep keep building my history as a player with more records.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Being a coach means giving your job 200% all the time and you're family is left on the side so I don't want to risk my family anymore just because I love football. I don't feel this ambition, I'm involved in many businesses and I want to live my own life, to see my daughters grow and want to see my family happy.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

The most surprising fact that people do not know about breast cancer is that about 80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a single relative with breast cancer. Much more than just family history and inherited genes factor into the breast cancer equation.

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.

Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

I come from a family of seven, so growing up I always thought I'd like a big family.

But I'm proud to come from a family of Republicans and, yes, we have some spirited discussions in our family.

I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.

'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.

Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.

For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

We're all family at the end of the day - connected to other members of our family as adults or children.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history of mental illness or a history of a criminal background from owning a firearm.