Quotes About Heritage

Story is the primary way we impart what really matters to the next generation.

we must become bards: poets charged with the task of keeping and imparting the stories, language, values, and beliefs of a culture.

Both moderns and postmoderns must be willing to try old things in new ways and new things in old ways.

If we want the next generation to know where they came from and thus who they are, we tell them stories so they won't forget. Then they pass the stories on to the generation after them, and so it goes.

None of them were recent, but that was the nature of family stories. They had to be far enough in the past that they took on a mythic quality.

Because, in the end, it takes a heck of a lot more than queso, Dr Pepper, and hair spray to make a real Texas Woman. The single truly essential ingredient that every real Texas Woman must possess is this: she must know that she is exactly as special as the state she comes from.

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.

My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

She must have Egyptian blood. Every time I try to kiss her she says, "Tut, Tut!"

Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

History is the daughter of time.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?