Quotes About Heritage

Dowered with great historic names which they almost despise, they do their best to drag the memory of their ancient lineage into dishonour by vulgar passions, low tastes, and a scorn as well as lack of true intelligence. Let us not talk of them. The English aristocracy was once a magnificent tree, but its broad boughs are fallen,--lopped off and turned into saleable timber,--and there is but a decaying stump of it left.

All lives are stories, and history is made of stories.

In America, since we are an immigrant country, our "nativists" may be first- or second-generation Americans whose parents or grandparents were themselves considered suspect on these same grounds. It is almost as interesting as it is disheartening to learn that nativist rhetoric can have impact in a country where precious few can claim to be native in any ordinary sense.

we all do live in the ruins of the lives of other generations

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us.

though Italy governed Sicily, no true Sicilian felt he was an Italian.

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

The harder I tried to assimilate, the more I had the feeling that I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins, that I was playing a game by somebody else's rules.

But is it her fault that she was born where she was born???

fierce fraternal tradition

Where there are Norwegian communities, there are cod clubs.

nunna daul Tsuny in the Cherokee language

When a peasant has a baby girl, the family puts up a vegetable every year and gives the jars to her when she's married. This

Romans often took family names from agriculture, Cato

A world without fishing would be sad.

much of the western world has a big hole where its sense of identity ought to be.

Intricacy is that which is given from the beginning, the birthright, and in intricacy is the hardiness of complexity that ensures against the failure of all life. This is our heritage, the piebald landscape of our time. We walk around; we see a shred of the infinite possible combinations of an infinite variety of forms. Anything can happen; any pattern of speckles may appear in a world ceaselessly bawling with newness.

There was real beauty to the old idea of living and dying where you were born.

El que no es consciente de su lengua, no encuentra su identidad. La lengua es un importante lugar de encuentro de la identidad.

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

It feels good knowing you are part of a long and glorious tradition of suffering, insanity, and excess.

If I lived across the street from this place, I'd quit my job and just hang out here all day, until all the money was gone. Quimet & Quimet is a four-generations-old tapas bar in the El Poble-Sec neighborhood of Barcelona, which relies heavily on that Catalonian tapas bar staple of canned food.

address the problem of keeping all this alive and safe without excluding or marginalizing the people who've lived here for centuries. That is a delicate balance: man and nature;