Quotes About Heritage

Nous ne te voulons pas de mal, mais nous avons un sens africain de la race. Les blancs sont des blancs, mais vous autres descendants d'esclaves, vous n'êtes rien. Ce n'est pas ta faute, et ce n'est pas la nôtre : tu n'es rien. Tu es un, comme chaque poisson du fleuve.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

As far back as I can remember, there has always been a place to which I belonged with a certainty that nothing has been able to take from me. When I say place, that means less a geographical locality and more a group of people with whom I am connected and to whom I belong.

Above our heads, is where our roots are found.

Having so-called "blue-blood" does not automatically mean that person has class. It just means somewhere down the road someone in their family was once someone of note. It's been my experience that blue-bloods and real nobility and royalty never mix. (Or at least they do not mix well.)

Old families last not three oaks.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato?the only good belonging to him is underground.

For he might have been a Roosian,A French or Turk or Proosian,Or perhaps Itali-an.But in spite of all temptationsTo belong to other nations,He remains an Englishman.

He is an Englishman!For he himself has said it,And it's greatly to his credit,That he is an Englishman!

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Supuse que aquella entereza la llevaba en la sangre, como un rasgo escandinavo heredado de una larga estirpe de personas que sabían sufrir solas.

Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land, God Bless the U.S.A.

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

I think what I listen to now is what I listened to as a kid which is kind of black American soul. I love soul music.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

When I took the job as Estée Lauder's creative director, the first thing I did was go into the archives! I love taking our heritage and making it modern.

I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

I think most people assume if you're a Latino in Texas, you're Mexican. It's not really a problem, and I love so much about Mexican culture and the Mexican people.

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.