Quotes About Heritage

I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.

Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

The demolition of a Temple is possible at any time, as it cannot walk away from its place.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor.

I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

I'm looking forward to the time when we all look like Polynesians.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow.

Surely an American doesn't want to get it wrong; if there is anything that England stands for, with its quiet central squares, its tweeds and twin sets and teas, the tight-lipped precision of its speech, it is that there is a right way to do things. This is where the right way has its ancestral home.

When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a thirty-five pound bag of rocks and the lost world it represents, is not such a bad thing to die for.

He simply could not imagine a time when being a Jew, or even a half Jew, was not a disability.

Fizeram questão de lembrar que somos judeus acorrentados, acorrentados num lugar, sem qualquer direito, mas com mil deveres.

vuelto a tomar conciencia del hecho de que somos judíos encadenados, encadenados a un único lugar, sin derechos, con miles de obligaciones.

We can never be just Dutch, or just English, or whatever, we will always be Jews as well.