Quotes About Heritage

Oniton, like herself, was imperfect. Its apple-trees were stunted, its castle ruinous. It, too, had suffered in the border warfare between the Anglo-Saxon and the Kelt, between things as they are and as they ought to be.

If Wilcoxes hadn't worked and died in England for thousands of years, you and I couldn't sit here without having our throats cut. There would be no trains, no ships to carry us literary people about in, no fields even. Just savagery. No--perhaps not even that. Without their spirit life might never have moved out of protoplasm. More and more do I refuse to draw my income and sneer at those who guarantee it.

i never knew anyone so relentless to his ancestors - you make up for your soapiness toward the living

Too paralyzed with self-absorption to protect the rest of life, we continue to tear down the natural environment, our species' irreplaceable and most precious heritage.

realized at that moment that I was British, but evidently not a Briton, and that fine differentiation was now very important; I

When we woke up to the realization that we were independent and that independence meant having a culture that we could call our own, we discovered that all we had that might be termed indigenous or native was what had been created or reassembled and maintained here by those at the bottom of the economic ladder.

Few have failed to observe that the much vaunted cultural creativity expressed in Trinidad and Tobago has come principally from the ordinary African descended people at the bottom of the economic ladder.

You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.

You can say this for ready-mixes — the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.

To paraphrase a Latino saying (which is possibly ultimately from the Arabic traditiom), MI rasa is supposed raza." So Living in Spanglish is not a racial Istanbul text.

Have you got a flag?

when they put up the sea barriers the mayor's office started slapping protection orders on everything and turned Manhattan into a theme-park version of itself: no life, no change, no danger, just heritage.

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

Our parents are the root of our body.

My mom's messed up," his mom said. "The nuns messed her up. They made her think everything Indian was evil. And that includes you and me.

Gran, I love you," Sarah said, "but your blind adherence to the dominant culture's values makes me want to scream.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

We should pass on to future generations the opportunity to enjoy these places and not have them transformed into ordinary places

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance."

The wisdom of our ancestors.

He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.

So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.