Quotes About Heritage

You will eat country and breathe nation.

he wondered if such things were born into people. If perhaps we cannot alter who we are—if the place we come from dictates the place we will end up.

Antony's children were provided with additional names about this time

now called Alexander Helios (Greek "Sun") and Cleopatra Selene ("Moon").

He traced his lineage to the splendid, mysterious Etruscan civilization, based in today's Tuscany

Caesar was handing Octavius a priceless weapon: his name and his clientela

As Cicero drily put it: "We must apply to our fellow-countrymen for virtue, but for our culture to the Greeks.

The eastern half of the empire spoke Greek and boasted a culture that went back to Homer.

his signet ring bearing the head of Alexander the Great.

produced two sons, "an heir and a spare." (Two daughters, Julia and Agrippina

Her family was of obscure origin;

Cicero could not boast a long line of noble ancestors, as his colleagues and competitors constantly did

Appalachia, in fact, is a very matriarchal culture. We revere our grandmothers and mothers.

In Appalachia, everyone has a fierce granny story.

Abbiatico and Salvinelli," he said. "It cost me thirty grand—or my mother, anyway.

that four hundred years of careful in-breeding should amount to nothing more.

Atticus Pünd had no time for religion. During the war, he had been persecuted not for what he believed but for what he was, a Greek Jew whose great-grandfather had emigrated to Germany sixty years before he was born, unaware that although he was bettering his own life, his decision would lead to the extinction of almost his entire bloodline.

I come from a family that has grown their own food from well into times of slavery, provided for themselves and people around them. So I found, through conversations about the earth and about the house with my neighbors, a lot of common ground.

My mom's father came from a family of 11 children who came over from the island of Ischia, Italy, and settled in Providence, RI. Her mother was part of the large community of French-speaking Canadians who settled in Woonsocket, RI.

The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.

While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.

I'm a child of provincial France.

The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.

My mum's from Broome, so I'm a saltwater person - Aboriginal people are either freshwater, saltwater or desert mob. So I always feel much more comfortable in close proximity to the beach, even if I'm not necessarily in the water.