Quotes About Heritage

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

As though to be Jewish weren't trouble enough, the poor woman was German, too.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

In the Roman Empire a child's religion was determined not by some choice in the teenage years but by that child's family.

We don't have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

By God, the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man.

Islanders too are for sculpting.

They let the ground keep that ancestral treasure, gold under gravel, gone to earth, as useless to men now as it ever was.

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!

We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.

Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.