Quotes About Heritage

If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Everyone was literate as a matter of course. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that. It was there to read, and we read.

all my ancestors were from the South and some even fought and died for the losing side. Perhaps that's why I was long resigned to my failure to publish.

Liturgy, literally the work of the people, is the intergenerational stronghold in Christian history.

What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.

I was one of many who owed their lives to the black circles and squares in Schou's family tree.

Ein Mensch kann irgendwo arbeiten und seine Steuern zahlen, aber am Ende will er dorthin zurück, wo er aufwachsen ist

What this all amounted to was that as I was growing up, long before I'd ever thought to create fictional worlds in prose, I was busily constructing in my mind a richly detailed place called 'Japan' – a place to which I in some way belonged, and from which I drew a certain sense of my identity and my confidence.

Não há virtude nenhuma em se apegar à tradição só pela tradição, como fazem alguns.

He rolled his eyes. First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either. I sputtered a laugh. I think that's Swiss.

I like castles almost as much as I like museums. Centuries of bloodshed and betrayal and heartache, all under one roof. You just don't get history like that back home

The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.

As they went, The Witch's Revenge sang a song: I had no mother and my mother had no mother and her mother had no mother and her mother had no mother and her mother had no mother and you have no mother to sing you this song

Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.

Even lords ought to follow the customs.

I'm glad to see that the crusading spirit of your forebears hasn't been entirely obliterated by rock and roll.

his naval namesake. He spoke German as a

o piensan que ese territorio es sagrado porque es donde los espíritus de sus ancestros se reúnen bajo la luna llena.

An Outline of European Architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner.

Petranilla turned to the girls. "Our father was descended from Tom Builder, the stepfather and mentor of Jack Builder, architect of Kingsbridge Cathedral," she said.

Al negro de raza la arruga no amenaza»

Esta es la historia de mis abuelos y de los vuestros, de nuestros padres y de nuestras propias vidas. De alguna forma es la historia de todos nosotros.»   KEN FOLLETT

In the 21st century, culture is power.

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.