Quotes About Heritage

Bonito pueblo el alemán, y pensar que en realidad yo también pertenezco a él! Pero no, hace mucho que Hitler nos ha convertido en apátridas. De todos modos no hay enemistad más grande en el mundo que entre los alemanes y los judíos.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

There was no energy of a narrative in my family, not even the fervour of an elegy.

The tombstones smashed in Hebrew cemeteries and plundered for Polish sidewalks; today bored citizens, staring at their feet while waiting for a bus, can still read the inscriptions.

A man should be proud of his heritage—not arrogant, as if it made him superior, but happy to own it and live up to the best in its promise. Monk

Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all.

Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint.

Traditions are seldom lies; traditions reflect people's deepest beliefs and customs. They have their own truth

Ah, yes, beautiful English bones.

Rhosh, remember the being's skin, smooth, dark brown skin, like this one's skin, and the being's hair. The hair was the same, thick like this and with loose curls and the very same golden streak in it, only broader and on the right side of the head.

One thing we can give each other is our history.

The family was not just the family to them; it was the clan; the nation; the religion; the obsession. I

Elements we might call Asian or Chinese proliferate in these artifacts, and then there

America destroys her big houses. Some them don't even last a hundred years.

Manfred was the patriarch, and William was his son. William begat Gravier. Gravier begat Pops. And Pops, late in life when he and Sweetheart had despaired of having a child, begat Patsy. At age sixteen, Patsy gave birth to me and named me Tarquin Anthony Blackwood. As to my father, let me state now plainly and unequivocally that I don't have one. "Patsy

What tribe on earth has not had elders? How much of our art and our knowledge comes from those who've lived into old age? You sound like Lestat when you say such things, speaking of his Savage Garden. The world has never seemed a hopelessly savage place to me.

It was what Trinity was all about: training you to be British and then insisting instead that you be Southern.

ancestor, and the combination was

He must have some Tartar in him, don't you think?" "I have no idea," Kate said. "Or is it 'Tatar.

Or maybe it wasn't a quirk at all. Maybe it was just further proof that the Whitshanks were not remarkable in any way whatsoever.

Oh, my. I guess it's true what they say about how you have to skip a generation to appreciate some of your relatives.

when I hear people say "Six Flags," my mind fills in "Over Texas" and I have to resist the temptation to explain why "Six Flags." The six flags refer to the six flags of the countries that flew over Texas in history: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States, and the Confederate States of America.

Even if Africans chose to adopt the mores of the English, they could never overcome the powerful view that the differences between the groups were elemental and largely insurmountable.