Quotes About Heritage

We've tried to keep her connected to her Chinese background and we've always felt really good about that, but what if, instead of building her Chinese identity, it's only served to make her feel separate from us and not 100 percent our daughter?

The memories of the agony you felt during your footbinding will never leave completely. There will be days from now until you die when the anguish will visit—if you've stood too long or walked too far, if the weather is about to change, if you don't take proper care of your feet.

She's grabbed onto old traditions-outdated traditions- in the same way I latch onto them now: as a means of survival, as a way to hang on to ghost memories.

Marrying a woman of priestly ancestry was a special blessing.

In other words our own earliest sense of self-identity is associated with learning the language of our cultural womb.

Our Christian cultural heritage will continue as a viable path of communal faith in today's global village only if it leaves us free to believe what we find personally convincing and at the same inspires us to walk into the unknown future with hope and faith.

But their shoulders were as straight as they had been in the past: in the classroom, on the stage, at the Sabbath table. So there were other sources, too, of pride, and they had not left everything behind.

Grandparents. It meant parents-of-the-parents, long ago.' 'Back and back and back?' Jonas began to laugh.

Jonas began to laugh. "So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?

the history of Denmark has much to teach us all.

Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.

Paranoid?" she inquired solicitously. "Getting more so by the minute. Having Mad Emperor Yuri in my family tree doesn't help a bit. I'm always wondering if I'm starting to come down with his disease. Can you be paranoid about being paranoid?" She smiled sweetly. "If anyone can, it's you.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

Half of these Jews are Muslim by religion, since their ancestors fell into disillusionment after the failures of a local seventeenth-century messiah.

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

It is this by which we measure a man, by what he does with his life, by what he creates to leave behind. —Louis L'Amour

We must not lose touch with what we were, with what we had been, nor must we allow the well of our history to dry up, for a child without tradition is a child crippled before the world. Tradition can also be an anchor of stability and a shield to guard one from irresponsibility and hasty decision.

A quiet man I was, and not one to provoke a quarrel, but if set upon I would fight back. I do not say this in boasting, for it was as much a part of me as the beating of my heart. It was bred in the blood-line of those from whom I come, and I could not be other than I am.

My folks built blood into the foundations of this country and I don't aim to see them torn down for no reason whatsoever.

I was raised up where folks looked to the hills, only up where we came from you hadn't chance to look much higher, we were that near the top of the ridge.

We sprung from thin soil, and raised more kin than crops, but we were proud folk...

It is our custom that a Stinkard must always marry a Sun.

that was where he came from

although the place a man leaves is in the hearts of those he leaves behind, and in his work, not upon a slab Ã¢â'¬Â¦