Jeremy Hardy Quotes

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.

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.

The Carter family history means a lot to me.

History is very much bound up in family experience.

I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

You want to try to find your heritage.

My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

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.

I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.

I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.

There is a strong propensity in the human mind to trace up our ancestry as to high and as remote a source as possible; and if our pride and our ambition cannot be gratified by a real statement of facts, fable is substituted for truth, and the imagination is taxed to supply the deficiency.

There are secrets in families. That is the definition of a family.

People like to trace their ancestry.

For my entire life, I have held the cards of my complicated family history very close to my chest.

My father's family, I think, were mostly from Lancashire, but I don't know how far back we go. I think it's quite a few generations.

Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?

Our family is fortunate to have a well-documented history in a book titled 'The Flores Family - 1725 to 1963' by James F. Padgett.