Quotes About Heritage

But I am a Southerner, and it is our prerogative, being us, to remember things as well damn well please.

Tupperware is the Wedgewood of the South.

The Southern Christmas is rich in its traditions, its own beauties, its own recipes and notions and yes, peculiarities. It is why, no matter where we live in the world, we yearn to come home as time draws near. It is more than a cliche. The Southern Christmas is not one of television advertising. It is a sight better than that.

To be a Southerner, or to live Southern, is to feel, well, something special even in the quiet, something fine in itself after all those rebel yells and fight songs have finally faded into silence.

I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.

My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

When Aaji first learned to spell her name, she did a little dance.

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

May said, 'Your granda's been

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

It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

Quit telling us to forget the past and never look back. We learned from the past, gained wisdom from the past that we apply every day in the process of living. If we forget the past, we'll forget who we are since that's where we came from.

My ancestors spent centuries in the hills of County Kerry, waist-deep in sheep shit, getting shot at by English soldiers, and my grandparents crossed the ocean in coffin ships to come to America, just so I could get possum rabies?

William the Conqueror was an enthusiastic builder of churches and monasteries, but even by the time he and his invading armies arrived from Normandy in 1066, Britons' national psyche – their customs, culture and language – had already been shaped by almost 900 years of wrestling for possession between competing religious doctrines, heathen, pagan and Christian.

Liege and Lief, the

From a very early age I remember a phrase being quietly passed around among our relatives at Six Nations: "Be proud you are an Indian, but be careful who you tell.

In an essay in American Heritage magazine for September 1999, John Steele Gordon writes of biography as

of we are to believe Helen Cody Wetmore, one of William Cody's sisters, her family was descended from Spanish and Irish royalty, and were accordingly entitled to a crest. In her book Buffalo Bill, Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of Colonel William F. Cody, published in 1899, she wrote that her brother was "a lineal descendant of Milesius, king of Spain, that famous monarch whose three sons, Heber, Heremon, and Ir, founded the first dynasty in Ireland about the beginning of the

the lives of the Codys in North Platte, Nebraska. Two other volumes have been especially helpful:

In April 1855 my great-granduncle Alexander Carter Jr. and his younger brother,

In addition, I feel a personal connection. In April 1855 my great-granduncle Alexander Carter Jr. and his younger brother, Thomas Marion Carter, left their home in Scioto County, Ohio, and headed west.

If you wish to give your children the best possible gift, the best possible entry into life, remove your shadow from them. To give them a clean heritage, psychologically speaking, is the greatest legacy.

There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.

For somehow your predecessors are more yourself than you are.