Quotes About Heritage

If England was the mother of the Big Boy, America, she was, I fear, a woman of questionable virtue. No one knows for certain who the father was.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.

He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.

My greatest hope is that our children, like our forefathers, will continue to plow the historical Jewish furrow in the field of the human spirit; that Israel will become the center of our heritage, not merely our homeland; and that the Jewish people will both be inspired by others and a continued source of inspiration.

All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...

We were cousins united by blood but separated by language

They knew that they were there in the Bahamas because their forefathers had been captured and put on ships and transported to a different part of the world. They knew that those ancestors had a history and a culture, and they talked about that history and culture. Through oral history, they retained some of the fragments of who their great-great-grandfathers were, and probably even some surviving words of their language. They

I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.

The Acadians may not have been literate, but they were neither uncultured nor unsophisticated.

Ray,' I said, 'is everyone your cousin?' 'Well, I got ten uncles and aunts on my mother's side, and ten more on my father's. And one of my uncles had twenty-eight kids. I got a lot of cousins.

Indio... was devoid of any semantic allusion to African heritage and would, thus, accord with their negrophobic definition of Dominicanness.

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

I'm a Russian. Without the Motherland, I'd be nothing.

Sacrul are nevoie nu doar de spiritualitate ?i credin??, ci ?i de legitimitate ?i tradi?ie.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

The chances of anybody today being a 'pure' example of any specific medieval 'race' must be close to zero, quite aside from the category being patently meaningless.

I want to live life on my own terms. But I'm Mexican, so mi familia is always there to guide me in everything I do, whether I want them to or not. Well, "guide" is too weak a word. "Dictate" is more like it.

My history defines who I am.

Paco Fuentes, " Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat.

She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

From the beginning when the Israelites were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt to the Nazi's attempt to annihilate the Jewish race, Jews have suffered-but in the end have prevailed and become stronger. They've even overcome God's anger (Exodus 32:10). Overcoming obstacles is in my Jewish blood.

when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.

The tale is, in large part, our capital. I was nourished on tales...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.