Quotes About Heritage

We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.

People must have a tribe. It gives them a name in addition to their own and social meaning in a chaotic world. It makes the environment less disorienting and dangerous. The social world of each modern human is not a single tribe, but rather a system of interlocking tribes, among which it is often difficult to find a single

How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents.

For the increase in the number of my Brennan cousins," Conall remarked dryly, "we must thank the potato.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

Innovations are always necessarily gradual and incremental, building on the accumulated insights of past humans. We are the cultural animal par excellence, and our ability to share the products of our individual creativity and pass them on to future generations is the key to our ecological dominance.30

Some of our people that are dead took the original of their death here.

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.

I take my journey back to seek my kindred,Old founts dried up whose rivers run far onThrough you and me.

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

History is your ancestors' outcome of the past; celebrate or compensate.

Never Forget. A country is it's people.- King Nefertari Cobra

When does a man die? When he is hit by a bullet? No! When he suffers a disease? No! When he ate a soup made out of a poisonous mushroom? No! A man dies when he is forgotten!

Enlighten your life with history.

The French are obsessed with history, partly out of a genuine affinity for the past, partly from a desire to cling to lost glory.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

Her reputation as a cook spread without her knowledge- for the soups she brought to the bakery in a lidded tin for her midday meal, for her stews, for the scraps of dough that she turned into what the Russians called pelmeni and the Jews kreplach, dumplings stuffed with chopped meat and onions. She prepared hot borscht with beef in winter, shchi or cold borscht in summer, chicken cooked with prunes or a tsimmes with sweet potatoes, carrots and prunes.

of body, tall Negroes from Africa, small wizen-faced Jews,

she theorized that a woman without love for her origins is lost.

a woman without love for her origins is lost.

History is the hidden map of who, where and how we are today.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

People who cannot find their way out of history are lost, and so are their nations.