Quotes About Heritage

Come è che possono togliere i nomi così? Vossignoria non è d'accordo con me? Il nome del posto dove qualcuno è nato, dovrebbe essere sacro

Mas, no que depender de mim, e tenho certeza de que dos senhores também, o Brasil jamais se tornará um país de negros, pardos e bugres, não se transformará num valhacouto de inferiores, desprezível e desprezado pelas verdadeiras civilizações.

No wonder you get along with so many kinds of people, Foster. Look at all this heritage that's part of you. That's something to be proud of.

WE WUZ PUSHED.

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present,

You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history,

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

I can no more understand Jesus apart from his Jewishness than I can understand Gandhi apart from his Indianness. I need to go way back, and picture Jesus as a first-century Jew with a phylactery on his wrist and Palestinian dust on his sandals.

If Gran, Da, and Gil were alive, they were alive inside her: when Da told her how to scythe, when Gran praised her for gathering herbs, when Gil said, "I like beginnings.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

After generation upon generation, fathers upon forefathers, mothers upon foremothers, centuries and millennia of being one colour officially and three colours unofficially, a colourful sky, just like that, could not be allowed to be.

So yes, keep the lid on, buy old books, read old books, seriously consider those scrolls and clay tablets.

To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.

Scratch a Russian, as the saying goes, and you find a Tatar.

Today, Polish-Ukrainian relations are rather muted – surprisingly so given their long and scratchy common history.

Nor, since not all Ukrainians were Cossacks and not all Cossacks Ukrainians, did Cossackdom form an embryo Ukrainian nation.

Thus the heirs of Rus are not the Ukrainians, with their funny language and quaint provincial ways, but the far more successful Russians themselves.

intermarrying with the local clans and Slavicising their names. Helgi became Oleh; Ingwarr, Ihor; Waldemar, Volodymyr.

This is where I come from. And it's where you come from. You'll never get away from that, and don't you forget it.

You'll be quoting from Braveheart next.' 'They can take our women! They can take our freedom, and our deep-fried Mars Bars! But they'll never take our shitey weather,

Many of these accounts became popular with the American public, and family clans like "The Jukes" and "The Kallikaks" became widely known, entering the public imagination as poor, dirty, drunken, criminally minded, and sexually perverse people.

A traveler can meet a man born in Poland, brought up in the Soviet Union, who now lives in Belarus – and he has never left his village.

Earth natives didn't absorb everything from the forms they had chosen over the long years the sun had risen and set over Namid. They were first and always terra indigene. But they learned from the predators they became, and certain traits were passed down to the young of each form. Yes

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.