Quotes About Heritage

In a world that has done all it can to erase or obscure the civilizational memory of the West, remembering becomes a moral obligation, and a key to recovering our sanity.

Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

For her, being Catholic isn't just about religion-it's about superstition and safekeeping and tradition.

The joy of our success can only be validated by the memory of our origin.

Every generation that goes into your genes is a generation of fighters, of survivors. And all those millions of lives are in you, in your blood.

Seek to know the history of the sacred souls.

Going down in history is a dead end pursuit

The choices one makes, not one's blood, determine one's destiny - John Steinbeck

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.

The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

Uno nunca es responsable de la historia de su patria, pero por lo general resulta difícil hacérselo comprender a los extranjeros. Explícale a un mexicano, por ejemplo, que tú no tienes nada que ver con el fin del Imperio azteca y las matanzas de Cortés. Ni siquiera intelectuales de altura como Carlos Fuentes u Octavio Paz te habrían hecho caso.

Nationalism is essentially a group memory of past achievements, traditions, and experiences

each nation and all peoples must rely on their collective history, their own collective character, and their own collective destiny.

To Squanto, as to all Native Americans, the land did not belong to the people, people belonged to the land.

Yes, you are Eskimo," he had said. "And never forget it. We live as no other people can, for we truly understand the earth.

Tradi?ia nu este numai amintire, ea este ?i obi?nuin?? ?i repetare, la urma urmelor a rutinei. De aceea, este o for?? ?i, în acela?i timp, o sl?biciune.

Cultura este ceea ce r?mâne dup? ce ai uitat totul.

The earth we leave is beautiful and rich; it gave us all we needed for all the generations we have lived.

He's part me and part Clan, and so is Ura. Or rather, she's part Oda and part that man who killed her baby.

What a lopsided stumpy mess people made of a family tree these days. The last thing any of them needed was some new little sprig grafted on.