Quotes About Heritage

All tradition is merely the past.

I realized that although I have adopted a new country, I cannot forget China. I wonder about Chna's present, and I worry about her future. I have realized that despite all my suffereing, I cannot stop loving the country where I was born and raised.

It has often been said, in the twenty-first century and in earlier centuries, too, that Americans lack a shared past and that, built on a cracked foundation, the Republic is crumbling.

Either hide this well or destroy it. It was the family motto.

the site still radiated a powerful aura that whispered of past glories too ancient for me to comprehend.

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

Sometimes the bedsheet is a Confederate flag. I wonder how the Negro players feel about them. The worst part is that these things are hung by kids. Why the hell couldn't they let that stuff die with their grandfathers? These are not rebels who want something new. These are rebels who want to bring back the old. Doug

They have bedsheet banners in Atlanta too. They say REBEL. Sometimes the bedsheet is a Confederate flag. I wonder how the Negro players feel about them. The worst part is that these things are hung by kids. Why the hell couldn't they let that stuff die with their grandfathers? These are not rebels who want something new. These are rebels who want to bring back the old.

She—Sometimes you appear really manly and sometimes you are effeminate. How do you account for it? He—I suppose it is hereditary. Half of my ancestors were men and the other half were women.

Don't get stuck in the past. Celebrate the company's history (heritage), but focus primarily on the present and future (culture).

Become a culture catalyst. While protecting the company's heritage, take bold risks that other people only dream about or are too scared to try.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

My father was a Filipino contortionist who was known as the Manilla Folder.

Photographs are a bridge to the past. Black and white reminders of the way things used to be. Links to those who are no longer with us. Priceless treasures.

Some friendships are a legacy left to us by those who have gone before. Other friendships are legacies we will leave behind.

Who we are is a tribute to those who have left us a legacy. Who we help others become will be our legacy.

We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.

I emerged from the black oil pools in the forgotten house of dreams in the wild backcountry of the heart. I am heir to the sun, child of Mother Earth and the Mayan galaxy. All the mountain cures and healing waters and winds and junipers run deep in my bloodstream.

Wilma had twenty-one brothers and sisters. She was child number twenty.

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the world and our place in it.

Nothing mortal can last. At best it can leave legends that can bear fruit in later ages.

Left to themselves, people remake their origin stories every few generations to suit present circumstances.

Nothing mortal can last. At best it can leave legends that can bear fruit in later ages." After