Biographical Sketch Quotes

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

Biography is the best history.

Every man should write a brief history of his life: his parentage, his birth, his religion, when he was baptized and by whom, when ordained, what to, and by whom-give a brief sketch of all his missions and of all his official acts and the dealings of God with him. Then if he were to die and the historians wished to publish his history, they would have something to go by.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

Long before my days at ESPN, the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' or the 'New York Daily News' before that, I was a student at Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical High.

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

Bios are always so dull and boring.

I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed.

I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.

I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.

I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.