There is properly no history; only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Biography is the only true history.
- Thomas Carlyle
Every life has a story.
- A&E Biography
If you don't know [your family's] history, then
you don't know anything. You are a leaf that
doesn't know it is part of a tree.
- Michael Chrichton
Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people
without history or cultur also becomes a dead
people.
- Malcolm X (1925-1965)
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that
is life without theory.
- Benjamin Disraeli
We are the hero of our own story.
- Mary McCarthy
All stories teach us something, and promise us
something, whether they're true or invented,
legend or fact
- Stewart O'Nan
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write
it.
- Sir Winston Churchill