Quotes About Heritage

As American Jews and descendants of immigrants, we never forget where our families came from or what members of our community experienced. Because we remember, we look out for those who are freeing persecution, oppression, and danger.

I was Persian-American, but I hated bringing Persian food to school. I just didn't want to stand out in that way. I wanted to be like everybody else.

Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.

Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

Memory dictates and history writes

I speak of a Canada where men and women of aboriginal ancestry, of French and British heritage, of the diverse cultures of the world, demonstrate the will to share this land in peace, in justice and with mutual respect.

The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

A queste latitudini, sacrificare la vita per difendere un territorio è qualcosa che scorre nelle vene da cinque secoli. E sembra tutt'altro che sopito, come istinto.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Fish can pass memories between generations. But maybe the better way to say it is that fish can pass experience learning through generations.

So in most people, all these intelligence genes add and subtract against each other, to result in, on average, a single IQ point. The intelligence genes do not determine your IQ.

Eucalyptus trees are for us, pine trees for our children, and cork trees are for our grandchildren

Our own age is not one which can afford to call its ancestors savage.

Cuando la vida se pierde, solo queda, para vosotros y vuestros hijos, lo que de vosotros se dice.

Tanpa mempelajari bahasa sendiri pun orang takkan mengenal bangsanya sendiri

Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill, he vowed to her that someday he would try to tell the world her life story. 'But why?' she asked humbly. 'I'm no one, just a girl from the coast' 'But you are everyone, Grandma,' the young Pramoedya told her. 'You are all the people who have ever had to fight to make this life their own.

Kau mengabdi pada tanah ini, tanah yang memberimu nasi dan air. Tapi para raja dan para pengeran dan para bupati sudah jual tanah keramat ini pada Belanda. Kau hanya baru sampai melawan para raja, para pangeran, dan para bupati. Satu turunan tidak bakal selesai. Kalau para raja, pangeran, dan bupati sudah dikalahkan, baru kau bisa berhadapan pada Belanda. Entah berapa turunan lagi. Tapi kerja itu mesti dimulai.

There is no love that appears suddenly out of the blue, because love is a child of culture, not a stone dropped from heaven.

Kalau orang tak tahu sejarah bangsanya sendiri –tanah airnya sendiri– gampang jadi orang asing di antara bangsa sendiri.

Kau tak kenal bangsamu sendiri.

Ibu bapak tani—ibu bapak tanah air—akan meratapi putera-puterinya yang terkubur dalam udara terbuka di atas rumput hijau, di bawah naungan langit biru di mana awan putih berarak dan angin bersuling di rumpun bambu. Kemudian tinggallah tulang belulang putih yang bercerita pada musafir lalu, " Di sini pernah terjadi pertempuran. Dan aku mati di sini.

Lagi pula tak ada cinta muncul mendadak, karena dia adalah anak kebudayaan, bukan batu dari langit.