Quotes About Heritage

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

Being Latina to me is living your life like it's a big old fiesta!

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.

We know where we're going cause we know where we're from.

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.

The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

I want to leave a souvenir of my life.

My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

It's not what you take, it's what you leave.

the thing i realize is that it is not what you take, it is what you leave

It is very lonely being Jewish, I think. And confusing.

Hello!" "Hello!" the Russian says, waving his gloved hand. And I realize something else. I understood him. He said hello in Yiddish. He is Jewish, too.

Survivors Like Us Then we see them. Others like us. Survivors. Jewish

Hay una palabra coreana que me enseñó mi abuela. Se llama jung. Es un vínculo entre dos personas que no puede cortarse, incluso cuando el amor se convierte en odio. Sigues conservando esos antiguos sentimientos por esa persona; no puedes librarte de ellos por completo; siempre guardarás un poco de ternura en tu corazón por esa persona.

to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

famously, Scots are very interested in their past, real or invented, but who else is?

We cannot separate the history of a nation from the people of that nation.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.