Quotes About Heritage

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

We cannot escape history.

Holmes was expressing his deepest values, ones impressed on him from an early age. He had been raised to believe he and his peers were part of a hereditary aristocracy. He had learned from his father that they were part of a special caste whose refined physiognomy set them apart, and whose elevated intellect was "congenital and hereditary.

Its monarch, the ManiKongo, was chosen by an assembly of clan leaders. Like his European counterparts, he

The KiKongo language, spoken around the Congo River's mouth, is one of the African tongues whose traces linguists have found in the Gullah dialect spoken by black Americans today on the coastal islands of South Carolina and Georgia.

In addition to deliberately shooting more than 5,000 Belgian civilians and setting fire to thousands of buildings, they had poured gasoline into the famous university library at Louvain and burned it to the ground, along with its priceless collection of 230,000 books and 750 medieval manuscripts.

Among William Brewster's own children, landing at Plymouth Rock, were Fear, Love, Patience and Wrestling Brewster.

Nevertheless, every Nazi has Jewish ancestors. Every white supremacist has Middle Eastern ancestors. Every racist has African, Indian, Chinese, Native American, aboriginal Australian ancestors, as well as everyone else, and not just in the sense that humankind is an African species in deep prehistory, but at a minimum from classical times, and probably much more recently. Racial purity is a pure fantasy. For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes.

Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant.

Everyone alive in the tenth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne, and his children Drogo, Pippin and, of course, not forgetting Hugh. If

For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes.

A tradition is a living argument. A living argument for a practice that began a long time ago.

He loved his family and he loved beauty. For a true Italian, those are the only two things that matter, because in the end that's what sustains you. Your family gathers around you and shores you up while the beauty uplifts you.

La famiglia eterna.

Enza studied the photograph of her parents on their wedding day as if it were a map. In a sense it was, as they were creating a destination, a life together.

When you marry a man from your own village, you know how he salts his food.

Adriana Trigiani

What's a true Italian?" "He loved his family and he loved beauty. For a true Italian, those are the only two things that matter, because in the end that's what sustains you.

Adriana Trigiani

tradition, properly cared for, nurtured, honored, and respected, continues to feed the soul of a family.

Who would tell the story of the elephant when she was gone? A family was only as strong as their stories.

What's bred in the bone is sure to come out in the flesh.

I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair , I bring you Islam and Luxor and Alexandria and Lutes and tambourines and date-palms and silk rugs and sunshine and incense and voluptuous ways

Oui, elle voulait avoir un enfant clair parce que cela représentait a l'époque une sorte de supériorité, c'était bête, mais c'était une part de notre complexe vis-a-vis des Blancs, tout ce qui était blanc était meilleur, tout ce qui était noir était maudit, sans avenir, sans lendemain