Prince Andrew Quotes

History is very much bound up in family experience.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

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.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

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.

My mum came from an incredibly big family.

I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle.

As you get older, you get more... genealogical.

I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Family is funny, and so it was not an unnatural thing for me, growing up, not to know anything about my dad or about the Vance side of our family.

My dad's family comes from the North, and my mother's family comes from somewhere around Carmarthenshire.

I live in the county where my mother was born and buried.

I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

We are the storytelling animal.

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

There's tons of members of the Carradine family. It's more like a clan than it is like a family, and it's rare that we can get a bunch of them together. We do once in a while.

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

My interactions with my family members are all one-to-one. We don't all get together for Thanksgiving dinner. But I can sit and tell any one of them about a conversation that I just had with the other one, and they're all curious and interested and respectful.

I just really wish I'd met my grandfather.

I come from a big family where we tell big stories. All we had was the storytelling.

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.