Quotes About Heritage

if we wish to understand why, as humans, we often act in certain predictable ways (and particularly if there is a desire or need to change these behavioral responses), we can remember our animal heritage and look for the possible releasers that seem to stimulate our fixed-action patterns.

The living tradition we share draws from many sources …

My great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way, and rowing another.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

I do this because we have always done this. I do this in a way beyond religion. I do this in a way of culture

But there was a saying in Hebrew, "We survived Pharoah, we'll survive this too." In the words of the old joke, it was the theme of every Jewish holiday: they tried to kill us, they failed, so let's eat!

The present is history's child

They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.

The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately erect monuments and memorials, lest we forget...

Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yetIn his own worth.

I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as well, and God plays a big role in my upbringing and my life.

I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.

I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those things that just charms the socks off of people.

I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.