Quotes About Heritage

For in the end, it is all about memory, its source and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

Traditions are just peer pressure from dead people.

These yanks into someone's personal past, that's the kind of history I like. Not wars, but who was your grandmother and what did she dream of? Did she walk up stairs to where she lived and what did it smell like and what was she wearing and who were her neighbors?

Mrs. Schultz believed in beer the way his grandmother believed in the Republican party.

Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.

library is a beautiful old thing

Then, I will be a real Italian girl, instead of a total American who still can't hear someone across the street to his friend Marco without wanting instinctively to yell back Polo!

A man can't help where he's born. A cat can have kittens in the oven, but that don't make 'em biscuits.

Then I walk back over the bridge, through the old Jewish ghetto

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

In your country you don't care about history, and in my country we cannot recover from it.

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.

In the early 1900s, while colonization continued, the original Mexican population of the Southwest was greatly increased by an immigration the continues today. This combination of centuries-old roots and relatively new ones gives the Mexican-American people a rich and varied cultural heritage.

I do wish you would not be so precipitate; just look at you, you are bleeding all over the antiquities

No one in this world comes from nothing.

you can drop those 'a'ints' too. It ain't 'acting white' to speak your own language properly. People fought for you to get the best possible education. It would break your grandpa's heart to hear you talk like nothing had changed.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a "mummified" form.

Papa Ubu: Yes, gentlemen, but however beautiful it may be, it can't compare with Poland. Because if there weren't any Poland, there wouldn't be any Poles!

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

This is my son, mine own Telemachus.

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

The gardener Adam and his wifeSmile at the claims of long descent.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.