Quotes About Heritage

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon)

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

We honor the heritage of all who come here, no matter where they come from, because we trust in our country's genius for making us all Americans - one nation under God.

...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living but existing

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut?

I cannot believe you are who you are," he said, still flabbergasted. "I know she's admitted it and everything adds up. But I cannot believe it. I cannot believe I was right and your family really does go back to the Battle of Hastings." "Wrong." She was laughing and crying at once. "And I'm shocked that you don't know better—we are older than that; we were already earls under Edward the Confessor.