Quotes About Heritage

We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.

Always remember that you are an Englishman and therefore have drawn first prize in the lottery of life.

If one had but a single glance to give the world one should gaze on Istanbul.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

Trees are your best antiques

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.

Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.

Many a family tree needs trimming

In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage.

Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.