Quotes About Heritage

I have warned you. Glasgow is full of Campbells.

To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way.

You can't have a cohesive society without a shared culture.

That was the marvelous thing about going back to one's roots; there was no need for explanation.

Society may be post-Christian, but could hardly ignore its Judeo-Christian past; we did not, after all, come from nowhere.

Why should cattle have the gift of freedom? Their heritage from generation to generation is the belled yoke and the lash.

I sometimes wish I had lived in my grandfather's time instead of today. The pattern of life was less complicated then. This was a cleaner, greener land, and a man who took to the highroad might breathe, instead of gasoline vapors, a forgotten boon called air.

I was deliberately southern African. Not in a good or easy way. There is no getting around the fact that there had been so much awful violence to get me here; my people had engaged in such terrible acts of denial and oppression; I so obviously did not look Africa; and yet here I still was.

To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for...

paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.

We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.

Do you believe your gentle birth will turn a bullet?" "Why, yes," Rhett said solemnly. "Hell yes! Gentle birth's got to be good for something!

Japan continues to give this unexampled view of history. It also offers the excitement of watching change. Old and new in these small provincial cities continue to exist side by side, and the new is often built directly beside, rather than directly on top of. One may, for a time, compare; for a space, see history in the gap. Very attractive to a heritage-starved, history-parched American.

Martina had attempted to pass for Anglo, but with her dark akin and mine, she could not. Failed, she sat in silence. -Is la pocha too good for Spanish?- He used pocha the new way, to mean Mexican American, for disdain.

And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.

Some people claim we have a Christian heritage in America that needs restoring, but such a claim is debatable and is not well supported by the evidence. We have no biblical warrant to deify the past. Consequently, I find it difficult and possibly wasteful to try to identify just what part of our heritage was Christian in hopes that we can somehow get back to it.

This was the thing about family heirlooms: humble or grand, they made the past alive again.

baptismal cap of lace, tatted by our

Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.

race was defined as an inheritable trait

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

You must think it strange that I'm digging up my grandfather." "Not at all. I'm sure many young men dig up their grandfathers.

All that stuff, tradition and heritage. It's dead people's baggage. Quit carrying it.

Ali was horrified and enraged when in March of 2001 the Taliban dynamited the stone Buddhas that had stood watch over the town for centuries. What man had the right to write the future by blowing up the past?)