| Quote | Author |
| In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. | Alex Haley |
| History is the witness of the times, the torch of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. | Cicero |
| The first quality of an historian is to be true and impartial; the next is to be interesting. | David Hume, 1754 |
| Happy the man who thinks of his ancestors with pride, who likes to tell of their deeds and greatness, and rejoices to feel himself linked to their goodly chain. | Goethe |
| History makes one shudder and laugh by turns. | Horace Walpole, 1786 |
| Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. | Marcelene Cox |
| It is a noble employment to rescue from oblivion those who deserve to be remembered. | Pliny |
| If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| An historian is a prophet in retrospect. | Von Schlegel, 1798 |
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