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Quote by Ellen Goodman

“..what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we lived. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.”

Author

Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman is an American journalist renowned for her column writing in newspapers and magazines. Born on April 11, 1941, she has had a career spanning multiple fields, including politics, social issues, and the environment. more

“There was something about the people you grew up around, the ones you'd seen throughout your childhood, the folks you couldn't remember not knowing. Even if the past was a complicated mess, as you aged, you were just glad the sons of bitches were still on the planet. It gave you the illusion that life wasn't as fragile as it actually was--and on occasion, that was the only thing that got you through the night.”

Family Siblings Family History

Book:Lover at Last

Source: Lover at Last

“Who we are takes generations to create and doesn’t end with death.”

Time Family History

Author:Stanley Siegel

“To have deep roots in a place means having dead buried there. It is almost that literal, the dead forming your bond to the earth and to the others whose dead lie buried there. I always had that bond whether I knew it or not.”

Death Family Roots Family History Bonds

Book:The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning

Source: The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning

“I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me, those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his father, and all our fathers, and in front, to see my son, and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes were my eyes. As I felt, so they had felt, and were to feel, as then, so now, as tomorrow and forever. Then I was not afraid, for I was in a long line that had no beginning, and no end, and the hand of his father grasped my father's hand, and his hand was in mine, and my unborn son took my right hand, and all, up and down the line stretched from Time That Was, to Time That Is, and is not yet, raised their hands to show the link, and we found that we were one, born of Woman, Son of Man, had in the Image, fashioned in the Womb by the Will of God, the eternal Father. I was one of them, they were of me, and in me, and I in all of them.”