Quotes About Heritage

Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.

Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they lived on a dirt street in Tijuana, a house jammed with relatives, nobody speaking English. She didn't know a word of Spanish. She grew up well and was appalled and humiliated, terrified of anyone ethnic.

It is so important that British children are taught about the World Wars that their great grandparents fought in and lived through. It was a terrifying time.

The United States - you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And in those, there are a number of places that are our sacred sites.

We can feel in Poland a kind of phantom pain for lost multi-ethnic territories.

I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.

Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange.

The malady of the Jews is that they don't see territory as part of their identity.

My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.

We must link Azamgarh to art and culture and not with terrorism and crime.

It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team.

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

Almost everyone who loves to cook has at least one recipe handed down to them from a member of their family or community, and those kinds of recipes represent generations of cooking, testing, adjusting and evolving, so you know they're killer.

I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates

Religion may be as powerful an engine of identity as the nation;

My dad played fiddle as well.

When we take away from a man his traditional way of life, his customs, hi religion, we had better make certain to replace it with SOMETHING OF VALUE

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family recipes.