Quotes About Heritage

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.

Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization.

The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well.

the Breauxs, and she was, after all,

American, Khan understood the need to move forward. Being half Altaran,

Then I remember ice cream been a food I never taste. I wonder what my mama dream to name me for this food, as if she name me Something Lost.

Always remember that with privilege comes responsibility. You must go to Casa Azul and see the place you came from. Only then will you be able to understand how far you've come.

Funny how we talk about our roots when our people have been here for generations." "Interesting, too," Anna said, "how we're not really divided according to our nationalities, but by how much or how little money we have. Most of the differences are acquired, they depend on what money can buy you.

My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.

The other white man was a Scot," said Nathaniel. "Married into the tribe, by the name Ian Murray

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

Got it in one. Air force brat. I'm from everywhere and nowhere.

Raven was... Becky? And Beck was the Mercers'... daughter? And Grandma Mercer was her and Sutton's great-grandmother?

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living. that's the whole point of keeping papers. It doesn't matter if it's a hundred years or only a few weeks. It's all filed away, fresh as the day it went under the covers.

Edinburgh is alive with words.

One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.

Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.

My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone to talk to but there was just nobody there.

They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.