Personal History Quotes

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.

Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. And I love all of Octavia Butler's books. She's created some very complicated black heroines with a variety of belief systems. There are many great books out there, but those are a few of the ones that stand out.

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.

And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.