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

— Ron Mayes

Do 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 Mansfield

All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.

— Lucy Knisley

Over 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 Overmire

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

— Thomas Carlyle

The story of his great-grandfather . . . Was his own story, too.

— Kelly Cherry

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

— Amit Kalantri

I 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 Ferris

Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA.

— Amit Ray

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

— Eleanor Brownn