Ethan got some books out of an old trunk. They were history books, some passed down from his great-grandfather Tom through his grandfather Jeb and father Andrew. Ethan expected that he’d pass them on to his own child, one day. History and family trees had always been very important to the Fortner family.
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Related My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his ... MALCOLM X He twisted the heavy gold ring around his finger. It had been in his family for generations, passed ... LISA KESSLER I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfat... PETE SEEGER I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous ... PETE DU PONT He was a strong family man who loved his wife and son dearly. He believed that family was important.... CLAYTON DOWNING My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door sel... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS But he whose father is dead, while his grandfather lives, shall, after pronouncing his father s name... GURU NANAK No sooner than they got here his father passed away and he had to go straight from school and work e... GAIL GALLAGHER I'm sure he made his grandfather proud. I knew his grandfather and his family, so it was really nice... ERIC KRAUSE My son is very family oriented, ... Family probably means more to him that it does to most kids. To ... JOE TERESHINSKI You know I won’t take a chance with your lives…” Ethan replied. “You’re the future of the ... C.G. FAULKNER I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document... HELMUT SCHMIDT This was important to him, and it tells the history of Colorado for him. He knew the history of his ... BETTIE BACA My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part o... SHERYL SANDBERG My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the... WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. Look around you, Ethan." I said. "The end of the world. Is this the reward you want? Do you really w... RICK RIORDAN Look around you, Ethan." I said. "The end of the world. Is this the reward you want? Do you really w... RICK RIORDAN Ethan had his game plan together and that made a difference. BRAD JOYNER I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a ... MARIO CUOMO Back when he was 8 years old, they had a 90-day visa on him and his grandfather didn't do anything a... ASHLEY PAINTER I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ... TREVOR MCDONALD My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earl... RICK MOODY My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father,... KELLI O'HARA My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from... BODE MILLER His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk ... PATRICIA BRIGGS My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family. TAGG ROMNEY He told me to live every day to the fullest, and don't take it for granted. His thoughts were about ... BRENT JOHNSTON His dad (Steve Ford) has been a very important part of our boosters, and has been a very important p... JOE STONER His dad (Steve Ford) has been a very important part of our boosters, and has been a very important p... JOE STONER My own great-grandfather suffered so much from asthma that he had to walk a mile or two behind the c... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, an... YOKO ONO I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been co... JOHN DAWKINS I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been... JOHN DAWKINS I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been col... ROBERTSON DAVIES My great-grandfather was a man of great vision, drive, and native intelligence, with some human flaw... WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. Less than a week before his death, Andrew requested that some of his friends donate blood; he had be... DAVID MULLALY My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfat... AZZEDINE ALAIA He loved his wife and he loved his child. He's lost both his wife and child, and the family has been... HOWARD SHAPIRO My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my... DAVID HYDE PIERCE Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was... WAYNE NEWTON Some minutes or hours or days later, when I lay boneless and well satisfied, Ethan raised his gaze t... CHLOE NEILL His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. WILLIAM SHENSTONE Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass ... CORMAC MCCARTHY Thus, it comes to pass, that a certain room in a certain old hall, where a certain bad lord, baronet... CHARLES DICKENS I became interested in all the history of African-American people that had been left out of school a... JACQUI LEWIS I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always ... PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER He was the first to want to make poverty history, and his... reforms came to pass centuries after he... GEOFFREY ROBERTSON My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values... ZARIN MEHTA My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were Fren... ALEXIS DENISOF It's hard when you lose one of your own. Right now we want to focus on his family and his children a... CARMAN APPLE God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family. MARGARET CLARKSON It may be in the interest of others to be your masters, but why should it be in your interest to be ... DAMODAR JADHAV My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and ... JAMIE WYETH The time has gone by for colored people to talk of patriotism: . . . He used to be proud that his gr... CHARLES LENOX REMOND Hansie, apparently, genuinely feared for his own life and the lives of his family and wanted some pr... HANSIE CRONJE My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his dea... ALIKO DANGOTE I come from a family of painters. My dad Ken is still a working artist. His dad used to paint as a h... ALAN REED All his life he has been in the shadow of Grandfather, and of the man for whom he was named." .... RAYMOND E. FEIST My grandfather was a great example of his generation, ETHAN HAWKE My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding so... EZEKIEL EMANUEL When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A... GAVIN DEGRAW My grandfather got on the train in Milford to go to Philly and see Mr. Mack. He just walked into his... BILL GRIER Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to al... ELLA R. BLOOR They called my 73-year-old father and they told him they were going to hurt his whole family. They s... PAUL POLITIS "Until the day Grandfather passed away 50 years later, he could still hear the women screaming and s... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN When he first got down there, he was 'The Golden Child.' Everyone loved him, ... He had his whole fa... JAMIE SHARPER Have either of you seen your mother ” “Yeah ” Ethan said and my heart actually skipped a... RACHEL VINCENT She understood that it had never just been about talent: it had also always been about money. Ethan ... MEG WOLITZER (Cameron's) grandmother used to come to games. His grandfather was there, and it's very emotional. S... JOSE REBIMBAS The power of the family stories and the family history is really remarkable. There seems to be somet... ROBYN FIVUSH [McAllister said he'd been unable to reach about 15 to 20 friends and family members in affected are... DEUCE MCALLISTER I had flashes (of his career being over), but my teammates, family and friends got me through everyt... ANDRE CALDWELL My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and picture... PIERRE LOTI The defendant and his family talked at length about what they had been through, but apparently were ... CHRIS MILLER The Bible A young man from a wealthy family was about to graduate from high school. It was the custo... JACK CANFIELD The community has really come together to help our family with gifts and donations for Ethan. MARIA RODRIGUEZ The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he ... BERN WILLIAMS The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he di... BERN WILLIAMS Knowing my grandfather, his approach to these things has always been not to interfere with my uncle. PIERCE BUSH My grandparents had a house full of books. They were both fluent in several languages. My grandfathe... DANIEL LEVINE He's a family guy, and his family has all moved out of the area. He's very devoted to his grandchild... CORAL CONNER Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and agai... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. "At times you can look at a picture of a Father or a Grandfather who has passed on, knowing they are... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbo... SIGOURNEY WEAVER Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of bei... JEFF KINNEY Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishmen... WILL ROGERS Those books were re-printed, but they came out very late this year and because of that some of our e... BARBARA PUFFER old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history AMY TAN My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the centu... BONNIE BEDELIA We had six, but when my grandfather passed away, they cut them back to four. JASON CHILDERS Thousands of men executed and buried in mass graves, hundreds of men buried alive, men and women mut... FOUAD RIAD I was a good dog. I had fulfilled my purpose. Lessons I had learned from being feral had taught me h... W. BRUCE CAMERON My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the pr... ALBRECHT DURER Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what ... WALTER FARLEY My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value o... YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look fo... EDITH WHARTON 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of the great American books. It covers some important topics like cen... HILERY WALKER To some of them it had just been work, ... But some got caught up in the romance of creating comic b... MICHAEL CHABON Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly... TRACY POLLAN He's a pretty jovial guy. He's very loyal, a very religious guy, very family-oriented young man. His... DOUG ALLISON
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WILLIAM FAULKNER People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don... WILLIAM FAULKNER One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to... JUDITH FAULKNER This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them. WILLIAM FAULKNER When the sky is clear, there will be eight Reindeer
But when you can't see the sky, then Rudolph wil... IRENE FAULKNER Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant. WILLIAM FAULKNER Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain WILLIAM FAULKNER One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after ... WILLIAM FAULKNER Between pain and nothing, I choose pain WILLIAM FAULKNER Only vegetables are happy WILLIAM FAULKNER He [the writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid and, teaching himse... WILLIAM FAULKNER Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even ... WILLIAM FAULKNER Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his o... WILLIAM FAULKNER No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors. WILLIAM FAULKNER No man can write who is not first a humanitarian WILLIAM FAULKNER Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature. WILLIAM FAULKNER I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone amo... WILLIAM FAULKNER Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in ord... WILLIAM FAULKNER Clients now can store all types of files as attachments to their email and use our web-based email p... CHRISTOPHER FAULKNER I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, no... JUDITH FAULKNER All I knew is that I had to stay with her (Hall). She's taller than me but I felt I kept up with her... ANNESIA FAULKNER