Quotes About Heritage

Belief isn't required. Finch told me my father scoffed at it all, and he's just as dead as the other dukes." "So

You're very beautiful, dear", she said, "what nationality are you, Indian?" "No", I smiled, "I'm Aboriginal." She looked at me in shock. "You can't be," she said. "I am." "Oh, you poor thing," she said, putting her arm around me, "what on earth are you going to do?

You're very beautiful, dear', she said, 'what nationality are you, Indian?' 'No', I smiled, 'I'm Aboriginal.' She looked at me in shock. 'You can't be,' she said. 'I am.' 'Oh, you poor thing,' she said, putting her arm around me, 'what on earth are you going to do?

Tell them they're Indian,' I told her. 'You don't want them havin' a bad time.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

I always paint those vast sandy expanses that go as far as the eye can see. I don't know why; I have never been in North Africa. I suppose it's an atavism of the Arab blood.

Quanto più sapremo guardare al 'classico' non come una morta eredità che ci appartiene senza nostro merito, ma come qualcosa di profondamente sorprendente ed estraneo, da riconquistare ogni giorno, come un potente stimolo ad intendere il 'diverso', tanto più da dirci esso avrà nel futuro.

Come mai l'Italia, che grazie agli italiani d'un tempo si meritò il nome di 'giardino d'Europa', sta facendo scempio di se stessa? Quello che sta accadendo è un'involuzione culturale passeggera o una profonda mutazione antropologica? Siamo accecati solo davanti al paesaggio, o anche alla tutela del patrimonio culturale, alle esigenze della scuola, dell'università, della ricerca, dell'arte e della scienza, della musica, insomma della cultura?

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

I am not from Venus. . . . I am from a small town on the Serbo-Croation border.

Åžimdi topra??n üstündeyim. Bu toprak annemin annesi, benim annem, tüm canl? varl?klar?n annesiydi.

A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

My country, 'tis of thee,Sweet land of liberty,Of thee I sing:Land where my fathers died,Land of the pilgrims' pride,From every mountainsideLet freedom ring.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Une langue implique obligatoirement l'existence d'un groupe culturel, plus ou moins considérable, avec sa mentaliteé.

also wish to express my thanks to the Department of Antiquities of the Republic of Turkey and to the Director of the Archaeological Museum in Istanbul for generously making it possible for me to utilize the Sumerian literary tablets in the Istanbul Museum of the Ancient Orient. To the two curators of the tablet collection of this museum, Muazzez cik and Hatice Kizilyay, I am particularly

Archaeological discoveries made in Egypt and in the Near East in the past hundred years have opened our eyes to a spiritual and cultural heritage undreamed of by earlier generations.

Language. The central elements of any culture or civilization are language and religion

Many, perhaps most, Americans," one observer commented in 1994, "still see their nation as a European settled country, whose laws are an inheritance from England, whose language is (and should remain) English, whose institutions and public buildings find inspiration in Western classical norms, whose religion has Judeo-Christian roots, and whose greatness initially arose from the Protestant work ethic.

In wars between cultures, culture loses.