Quotes About Heritage

And isn't it funny, she thought, that it takes two generations to kill off a man? … First him, and then his memory. …

And isn't it funny, she thought, that it takes two generations to kill off a man? ... First him, and then his memory. . . .

On those pieces of paper there was just the word "Free" and a scrawl that looked like "Jack." So these new freemen and their children for all the years after were called Freejacks.

We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?

All the Blackwood women had taken the food that came from the ground and preserved it, and the deeply colored rows of jellies and pickles and bottled vegetables and fruit, maroon and amber and dark rich green, stood side by side in our cellar and would stand there forever, a poem by the Blackwood women.

My grandfather was an architect, and his father, and his father; one of them built houses only for millionaires in California, and that was where the family wealth came from, and one of them was certain that houses could be made to stand on the sand dunes of San Francisco, and that was where the family wealth went.

Todas las mujeres de la familia Blackwood habían recogido la comida que daba la tierra y la habían conservado, y los tarros de intensos colores con embutidos y verduras y mermeladas granate, ámbar y verde oscuro estaban uno al lado de los otros y allí se quedarían para siempre, como un poema compuesto por las mujeres de la familia Blackwood.

Eternal damnation is the lot of mankind; neither tears, nor reparation, can undo Man's heritage of sin.

we'll start right in on the knishes, or the kreplach, or the knaidlach, or the varnishkes, or the pirogen, or the blintzes.

You see, I come from Mezritch, though I grew up in Mazapevke, but Vorotolivke is where I'm still registered.

Where were they coming from? From Zhmerinka, and from Kazatin, and from Razdyelne, and from Popelne, and from a few-other places that were equally famous for their roughnecks.

Their lesson was simple: our lives are nothing without our past, without our history, without our culture, without our culture and old stones. It all matters, because it gives meaning.

Jesus was constitutively, not incidentally--a Jew; the Old and the New Testament were organically connected. Jewish history was the father of Christian history.

Un judío sigue siendo judío, con o sin piernas

The last surviving slave from the last arriving slaver died in 1935, in a suburb of Mobile, Alabama.

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

It was a downy town, a drowsy town, a town of security and tradition, which still believed in Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Memorial Day, and to which May Day was not an occasion for labor parades but for distributing small baskets of flowers.

American whose fathers have lived in the country for over two generations is so utterly different from any other American.

It is composed of females who spend one half their waking hours boasting of being descended from the seditious American colonists of 1776, and the other and more ardent half in attacking all contemporaries who believe in precisely the principles for which those ancestors struggled.

A nation that forgets its past has no future

From the Ylfing lineage came Eirik the Eloquent.

It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.

for I owe a longer allegiance to the dead than to the living:

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.