They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. – James Russell Lowell Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. – Joyce Carol Oates Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper. – Grazia Deledda Category: teacher
