Quotes About Heritage

It was, instead, about urging African Americans to draw on the traditions of the American Revolution to battle state-sanctioned white supremacy in order to claim their rightful place as citizens.

Tuesday, October 6, 1925, Coolidge was broad-gauged. "Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years of the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of to-day is real and genuine," Coolidge said. "No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.

history is a living thing that never dies.

Our culture is an edifice built of external memories, a way of fending off mortality.

It's approximately the same if you're a Jew," the rabbi said, "although we tend to emphasize that you're a Jew whether you like it or not. It's more a matter of God tracking you down than of you finding God.

My apartment rightfully belongs to the people of Lithuania!

There was no arguing with blood.

Henry said, getting up to piss against a tree, the coming of the white man ain't all bad. I like the Chinooks and all, the Flatheads, too, but there's something about talking in your native tongue that just lets the friendship flow better.

Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.

We believed in our grandmother's cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

We believed in our grandmother's cooking more fervently than we believed in God. Her culinary prowess was one of our family's primal stories, like the cunning of the grandfather I never met, or the single fight of my parents' marriage. We clung to those stories and depended on them to define us. We were the family that chose its battles wisely, and used wit to get out of binds, and loved the food of our matriarch.

Herschel was a Jew. And he was my best friend. He was his best friend. And I murdered him.

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

I kept thinking about how they were all the names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing that dead people keep.

Jonathan Safran Foer

My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons.

No sabemos lo larga que es nuestra historia pero sentimos su peso.

All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past

Sometimes a few birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheater.

Un idioma es una tradición, un modo de sentir la realidad, no un arbitrario repertorio de símbolos. (A language is a tradition, a way of grasping reality, not an arbitrary assemblage of symbols.)

Every so many years, he went to England to visit—judging by the photographs he showed us—a sundial and some oak trees.

Cuando esté muerto, copiarás a otro y luego a otro

I am returning to the language my ancestors spoke fifty generations ago; I am returning to that language; I am reclaiming it. It is not the first time I speak it; when I had other names this was the language I spoke.