Quotes About Heritage

Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.

We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.

I want my kids to live their life with great family memories that they can pass on to their children.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.

My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always played a huge part in my life.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.

Canada is a big part of my life.

Slow cooking is one of the oldest methods of cooking.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

Goldsboro, North Carolina.