History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill.
— Ron MayesDo try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories.
— Susannah MansfieldAll our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.
— Lucy KnisleyOver the course of the millennia, all these multitudes of ancestors, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time—to give birth to you. There has never been, nor will ever be, another like you. You have been given a tremendous responsibility. You carry the hopes and dreams of all those who have gone before. Hopes and dreams for a better world. What will you do with your time on this Earth? How will you contribute to the ongoing story of humankind?
— Laurence OvermireHistory is the essence of innumerable biographies.
— Thomas CarlyleThe story of his great-grandfather . . . Was his own story, too.
— Kelly CherryIn united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.
— Amit KalantriI had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls upon a wire, into an entirely private and thus irrelevant narrative, lacking any historical significance. The narcissistic pastime of nostalgic bores.
— Joshua FerrisMeditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA.
— Amit RayYour ancestors are rooting for you.
— Eleanor Brownn