Quotes About Heritage

And from those ancestors, you will find a greatness buried deep within yourself that you did not even know existed." "You think?" Skah asked, breathlessly. "I know," said the croma.

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

They (the Rothschilds) have never dreamed of being ashamed of their wealth nor of disguising their way of life, no more than they have ever failed to assume their roles and responsibilities as Jews.

When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.