Family History Book Quotes

#1. It's so hard to believe that someone might want me - all of me - fucked-up sexual desire, tangled family history, book-hoarding tendencies, everything.

Lilah Pace

#2. Today it is even more important to dominate the ... highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system.

Adolf Galland

#3. She sat still and silent, gazing unblinkingly at Mothermouth.

Erin Hunter

#4. Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#5. Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

William Winwood Reade

#6. The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

Anita Desai

#7. What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.

Henry Rollins

#8. I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

Anne Tyler

#9. In life ... we need to find a balance. You have to set rules and limitations - that is called discipline. And you have to practice that in all your worlds.

Cesar Millan