Quotes About Heritage

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?

After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.

The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

That you've got to do anything that you feel is precious. I especially believe that about cultures and languages. You've got to be really conscious because time is running out.

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.

I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.

she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock

Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father's plantation

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything... for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts...'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

Olive's tattoo marked the first stage of her transformation into a Mohave. She was now visually integrated into the tribe and physically traceable as a Mohave because of it.

Je suis quelqu'un qui ne sera jamais revenu dans son pays natal

It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters.

Friday morning and Bronte was reading her life story. I had to admit I was very interested. Ireland's small Anglo-Irish tribe was very different to the rest of us. They tended to be big landowners and have strong ties to England, often sending their kids to boarding school there.

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?

Pero los judíos, además, son conocidos por la forma en que estimulan los logros intelectuales en sus hijos.