Immanuel Velikovsky Quotes

If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it.

There's been a ham in every generation of our family.

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.

My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.

In my family, we don't die till we're 100 years old.

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.

That's how I got my name, you know. The Bonny scot, see?

The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.'

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

For those things which were done either by our fathers or ancestors, and in which we ourselves had no share, I can scarcely call our own.

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

'Frances' is a longtime family name on my dad's side. My grandfather, father, brother, and my daughter's name is Frances.

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.

As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she came to America. She could only give us a smattering of details, but they all found their way into our collective imagination, eventually becoming a part of our own cultural identity and connection to the past.

I'm very much into legacies.

I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother.

And I'm so grateful to have that family name and continue my family's legacy, but I'm also very excited to create my own.

I come from a family of storytellers.

My own father and grandfather served in the Army.