Quotes About Heritage

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Oh Sverige, Sverige du Gamla och Fria Varför dödar dina söner mig?

Yet it remains a commonplace of the official Australian worldview that all that is distinct and admirable in the national character and belief comes from the bush. It made Australians what they are.

You go in there to be Irish, Danny thinks, as if you're not already, as if you can get away from it anywhere anyway.

Danny's like his old man," Pasco says. "Stubborn. You heard about Irish Alzheimer's? They forget everything but the grudges.

The past isn't in the past. It's always with us. In our history. Our minds, our blood.

When Los Angeles was founded in 1781—as a city of angels—by a group of eleven families, it seemed to throw out a welcome mat to people of color. After all, of that founding group—forty-four men, women, and children—twenty-six were of African descent, black or "black Spaniards," as they were sometimes called.

Well, you might not think it to look at me," Dortmunder told him, "but I got a family crest." "Have you?" "Yeah. And it's got a motto on it." "I am anxious to hear this motto." "Quid lucrum istic mihi est." Mr. Hemlow squinted; the red-headed hawk in flight. "I'm afraid my Latin is insufficient for that." "What's in it for me," Dortmunder translated.

Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

Doc Colvin Swain was the seventh son of a seventh son, which Ozark tradition indicates as infallibly as the daily setting of the sun that he was destined to become a physician, even in spite of himself.

Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.

I want certain things out of life. I want my grand kids, my kids' kids, being able to inherit what I've worked so hard to build.

Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.

Who are we? We are children of God. Our potential is unlimited. Our inheritance is sacred. May we always honor that heritage - in every thought and deed.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It's become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, 'marvellous'.

The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.

Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.

A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn.

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.