Quotes About Heritage

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.

I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life!

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

I never had a country, never had the choice; I was born into one.

It's important to honor your ancestors. Bringing in a piece of furniture or an object you've inherited from a loved one not only honors the person who has passed but also brings the warmth of happy memories into your home.

Y si Cristo es el heredero universal de Abraham, entonces todos los que están unidos a Cristo por medio de la fe, tanto los judíos creyentes como los gentiles creyentes, están unidos a la herencia completa de Abraham: «Y si sois de Cristo, entonces sois descendencia de Abraham, herederos según la promesa» (Gál. 3:29).

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.

Lily lay back in Jake's arms looking at the timbered roof overhead, planks and beams smooth and worn, antiqued by a century of summers.

Italy was the only place I'd visited where people described kitchen implements as having souls of their own.

but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure.

Kinder, Kirche, Küche: children, church, kitchen; this

Goethe's Oak, which

Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one's heart lies.

the people grew tired of this little gossip. Fathers looked at their children and thought: "They are not learning much. What will make them brave and wise? What will teach them to love their country and old Norway? Will not the stories of battles, of brave deeds, of mighty men, do this?

For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.

Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture

It would be shame," Jameson commented, "if we were related.