Quotes About Heritage

The facts will be known to our children's children, though not to us.

A nation will be automatically destroyed if its people forget their religion , culture and tradiations.

The conundrum of color is the inheritance of every American, be he/she legally or actually Black or White ... I was trying to locate myself within a specific inheritance and to use that inheritance, precisely, to claim the birthright from which that inheritance had so brutally and specifically excluded me.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

If you really want to be universal, do it from your own country.

A long future requires a long past.

I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.

I stand here today, grateful for the diversity of my heritage, aware that my parents' dreams live on in my precious daughters. I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that, in no other country on earth, is my story even possible.

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Blood calls to blood. Like to like.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

In sum, restoring notions of race mixture to center stage recommits us, willy-nilly, to the discredited idea of racial purity, the basic premise of bio-racism. The

When money and comfort are absent, other more fundamental aspects take on greater importance. Traditions, rules, taboos.

On the occasion of a visit to Jane Austen's childhood home in Steventon, Hampshire: "I put my hand down on Jane's desk and bring it up covered with dust. Oh that some of her genius might rub off on me! One would have imagined the devoted female custodian going round with her duster at least every other day.

Is there any sadder sight than a burnt out library?

The French right wing, opening the offensive into German-occupied Lorraine, took an old embattled path like so many in France and Belgium where, century after century, whatever the power that makes men fight brought legions tramping down the same roads, leveling the same villages.

Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway.

The boy would learn to ride, to fight, and to hawk, the three chief physical elements of noble life,

The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.

He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.

The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.

They governed from duty, heritage and habit—and, as they saw it, from right.

You can never completely escape your DNA.