Quotes About Heritage

Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

Indigenous foods die when no one learns to cook them.

Scratch an Irishman and he'll bleed a story.

But the past was never erased, probably because there's just too much of it. Everything in France is built on layers of other things that existed before. The present in France is only a compromise between the past and the present.

Juan Manuel María de la Aurora Fernández Pacheco Acuña Girón y Portocarrero (1650–1726)—the

David Dary, in Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries

The Gaulish language ended up contributing very little to the vocabulary of modern French. Only about a hundred Gaulish words survived the centuries, mostly rural and agricultural terms such as bouleau (birch), sapin (fir), lotte (monkfish), mouton (sheep), charrue (plow), sillon (furrow), lande (moor) and boue (mud)—that's eight percent of the total. However, Gaulish is still relatively well-known, partly because it left many place and family names in northern France.

It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And, in these new countries, where both English and French are intertwined again, it is as if English were bathing itself in the fountain of its own youth, and as if French were remembering the buried treasures it had thought forgotten.

Il mediterraneo non è solo geografia. Non è solo storia. Ma è più di una semplice appartenenza.

every family tree has at least one crooked branch.

from the glass, 'Abuela,' and renews his attack

that line his abuela's street. He's

She spits through the fence. Only to leave a piece of herself there on American dirt.

Les estimations du nombre d'individus ancestraux nécessaires pour rendre compte de toute la variabilité génétique actuelle tournent autour de 15 000 individus en tout et pour tout... qui seraient à l'origine des six milliards et demi d'hommes actuels.

We're born in the museum, it's our homeland after all...

The task therefore was not only to denounce this supposed kinship between classical German culture and National Socialism, and show what this supposed 'Germanity' had falsified, but also to emphasize the extent to which the classical German heritage was indissociable from those values now trampled on by the Nazis: a certain belief in freedom, justice and democracy.

transept leading to the old cloister. The cloister itself, save for part of the old scriptorium and the boundary walls, had fallen to ruin centuries ago after the dissolution of the abbeys, leaving only a few moss-covered stumps of arches to bear witness to Henry VIII's devastation.

The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.

Terroir's direct translation is 'a sense of place

Names belonged to where we had come from, not to who we were...

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.

mis gentes.

Najbol?a definicija zavi?aja jeste biblioteka.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future