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I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family. -- Bobby Flay
I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong. -- Kelly Ripa
The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps. -- Bruce Feiler
If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out. -- Temple Grandin
I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised. -- Rue McClanahan
The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history. -- Debi Mazar
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. -- Douglas Coupland
I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India. -- Trevor McDonald
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
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself. -- Julie Andrews
I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history. -- Rachel Bilson
Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history. -- Lynsi Torres
My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex. -- Donald Tusk
We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice. -- Thomas S. Monson
My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum. -- Paul McCartney
The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities. -- Jeremy Hardy
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. -- Bruce Feiler
I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always enjoyed tracing family history. -- Nola Ochs
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. -- J. Philippe Rushton
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. -- Brendan Fraser
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 -- Brendan Fraser
My mum and dad teach, and all my brothers and sisters have been in 'Riverdance' and so forth. So I was forced to become a dancer; it's part of my family history. -- Sean Maguire
My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit. -- Brian Acton
When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears. -- Brad Pitt
And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group. -- Christopher Titus
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. -- Kim Edwards
I have learned that those who engage in family history research and then perform the temple ordinance work for those whose names they have found will know the additional joy of receiving both halves of the blessing. -- Howard W. Hunter
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The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you. -- Eckhart Tolle
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. -- Melissa Gilbert
We have a huge family history with Singapore because we have the duty-free shops in the airports. It's a very industrious city. It's beautiful, and Singaporeans have this wonderful desire for, and love of, luxury goods. You can see how well thought out and planned the city is with the best boutiques. -- Marie-Chantal Claire
At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn't know anything about. I always felt hesitant in talking about Chinese culture and American culture. -- Amy Tan
For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices. -- Angelina Jolie
It happens all the time! People are always talking about that explosive moment in their family history that sort of changed everything and rattled the cage, and more times than not it has nothing to do with trans issues. That's why people are relating to this show [Transparent], because our family is their family and they understand that dynamic. -- Judith Light
No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin. -- Russell M. Nelson
I work out every day. It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time. I do it more for my insides than my outside, but the outside gets a nice benefit, too. I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise. And I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong. -- Kelly Ripa
Soap operas got nothing on my family history. -- Kiersten White
My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you. -- Iphicrates
Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie. -- Zona Gale
The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history. -- Louise Erdrich
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family. -- Pope John Paul II
I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history. -- John Lone
Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about. -- Vik Muniz
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves. -- Gabe Newell
It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated. -- Caitlin Flanagan
Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history... -- Jim Conway
Serbian history tells that family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family. -- Novak Djokovic
Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land. -- Moshe Katsav
You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy. -- Russell M. Nelson
God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family. -- Margaret Clarkson
Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes. -- Cristina Saralegui
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents. -- Allan Sherman
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. -- Dennis Prager
One regret I have: I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids. -- Robert De Niro
It was always so important to my dad for us to understand about the Genocide and to know about our family history. -- Kim Kardashian
There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level. -- Matt Smith
When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself. -- John Sedgwick
I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you? -- Mary Pipher
When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears. -- Paul Lutus
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are. -- Shayne Ward
In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do. -- Jodi Picoult
I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family. -- Ben Stiller
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality. -- Wes Bentley
Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history. -- Charles Burnett
Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now. -- Max Lucado
There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family. -- Brian Cox
In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining. -- John Lescroart
Mythology and history are my passion. I grew up in a religious family and learnt about our scriptures and philosophies. It's the language I'm comfortable with. -- Amish Tripathi
I've got a long history of suicid in my family; the good news is it skips a generation, so, if I'm lucky, my kids will kill themselves. -- Anthony Jeselnik
We teach in our cultural history that the entire universe is a family. So our association with Nature is much deeper and of a very different kind. -- Narendra Modi
When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later. -- Noah Baumbach
Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents. -- John Taylor Gatto
Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family. -- Douglas Alexander
Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don't tend to talk. -- Chris Cleave
When it comes to politics and elections, far too many Christians spend more time appealing to family, history and tradition, culture, racial expediency, and personal preference than they do to what the Bible teaches. -- Tony Evans
Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships. -- Andrea Barrett

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