Quotes About Heritage

We teach history to instill in new generations the values of patriotism, citizenship, and love of country, but sometimes we must also remember that we teach history so that we can liberate ourselves from the past.

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.

We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.

I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages.

Chacune de mes appartenances me relie à un grand nombre de personnes; cependant, plus les appartenances que je prends en compte sont nombreuses, plus mon identité s'avère spécifique.

Olan biten seni ÅŸa??rtmamal? Ä°syan. Kendi kendine kardeÅŸinin sana göre bir üstünlüÄŸü olduÄŸunu tekrar et. +Nas?l bir üstünlük ? -O ,eski bir direniÅŸçinin kardeÅŸi ; sense eski bir kaçakç?n?n.

La langue a vocation à demeurer le pivot de l'identité culturelle, et la diversité linguistique le pivot de toute diversité.

Kendime kendim kadar yak?n hissettiÄŸim oysa sadece kitaplardan ve hayallerden bildiÄŸim bu topraklar? tan?may? öyle arzuluyordum ki!

Ce serait même désolant pour un peuple, quel qu'il soit, que de vénérer son histoire plus que son avenir.

On a tendance à se reconnaître d'ailleurs dans son appartenance la plus attaquée.

On ne leur reprochait pas leurs opinions, leurs propos, ni leurs actes, on leur reprochait leurs origines, qu'ils n'avaient pas choisies et qu'ils ne pouvaient pas modifier.

Esfahan, nesf-é jahan! is what the Persians of today say. 'Isfahan, half of the world!

Nous, les âmes nomades, avons le culte des vestiges et du pèlerinage. Nous ne bâtissons rien de durable, mais nous laissons des traces. Et quelques bruits qui s'attardent.

Je ne manquai pas de rappeler que notre "paradis" avait pour origine un vieux mot persan, "paradaeza", qui veut dire "jardin

Parce qu'il y a toujours eu, dans le discours de ceux qui portent traditionnellement les idées du conservatisme, une tonalité identitaire – souvent fondée sur la religion, la nation, la terre, la civilisation, la race, ou un mélange de tout cela.

If the Persians live in the past it is because the past is their homeland and the present is a foreign country where nothing belongs to them.

Some women's arms are placed of exile; others are a native land.

What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself

We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.

My name is Attila.' ah-til-ha. 'That's an unusual name,' Jean said. 'to whom?' replied Attila cheerfully. 'Well . . . everyone,' said Jean. 'not to the Hungarians or the Turks,' said Attila. 'your parents named you after Attila the Hun?' Attila smiled. 'Some people,' he said, 'name their baby girls Victoria.

People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.

Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower or three years to the steerage is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.

For the benefit of those half-dozen people who will see a name like Gwillim and put this book down in order to go look it up to see where it comes from — it is the Welsh version of William

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.