Quotes About Heritage

Traditional values are big in my life.

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.

Italians have a very closed life. Football is all their life is.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

smugness is half the fun of being a liberal (the other half being the tearing down of everything one's ancestors, and one's betters generally, worked so hard to build).

And needless to say, smugness is half the fun of being a liberal (the other half being the tearing down of everything one's ancestors, and one's betters generally, worked so hard to build).

It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

With chisels and pickaxes we made our tiny contributions to this orgy of historic vandalism.

Deberiamos respetar a los muertos y honrar lo diferentes que eran de nosotros en lugar de hacerlo para celebrar su capacidad de precedernos o la nuestra para superarlos