Quotes About Heritage

Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.

Lately, when asked, I have tended to say that I'm Mexican. I like the word because it still makes so many people flinch.

Cada persona tendrá su propia lista, su propio pedazo del país colgado del corazón. Una lista larga, rica colorida, voluptuosa, fragante. Una lista con la cual contener el pesimismo; una vacuna contra la desilusión. Una lista de lo mejor de México. Una lista para despertarse en las mañanas.

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Why's it called the Battlefield Rest?" "You don't know this area?" "No." "Mary Queen of Scots fought her last battle here. Against her son's army. She lost.

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

Just as Huckleberry Finn was published, the first generation of African Americans raised in the postslavery era began to come of age. Among them were people with musical talent, and at first they went to work in minstrelsy, in the well-worn patterns of show business they'd inherited.

An Englishman asks you what you know. An American asks you what's in your wallet. An Indian asks you what's your family history.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain for ever a child. For what is the value of a human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Let us, for the moment, assume that assimilation is desirable and that becoming a part of your country of residence is important. The question is this: Shouldn't we, therefore, all become Native Americans? Further, why aren't we?

40% of the Native American population may be of another race (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005),

Allow me to introduce myself. I am Thaddeus Osbert, son of Kenelm Osbert, protector of the House of Kane.

My grandfather believed . . . He believed that we were magic." Stephanie stared at him. "What?" "He said it'd been passed down, this magic, generation to generation. He said we were descendants of a great sorcerer called the Last of the Ancients.

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

I became the leader because of my father's leadership and I was considered as powerful as same as my own father.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.

You don't have to be dead to leave a legacy.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.