Quotes About Heritage

He smiled at Stiorra. "I am the Jarl Sigtryggr Ivarson, and you are?" "Stiorra Uhtredsdottir," she said. "And I took you to be a goddess," he answered.

Once upon a time, in a land that was called Britain, these things happened.

An hidalgo, Lieutenant, is a man who can trace his blood back to the old Christians of Spain. Pure blood, you understand, without a taint of Moor or Jew in it. I am hidalgo.' He said it with a simple

Morgan was high born herself. She was the first of the four bastards, three girls and a boy, fathered on Igraine of Gwynedd by High King Uther. Her brother was Arthur and

the French had torn away the silverwork, wrenched down the statues, and ripped the triptychs from their frames.

The shapes of houses, sometimes transmitted through a hundred generations, seem eternally valid.

A Frenchman! Where did you pick up that expression? Are these Burgundians and Bretons and Picards and Gascons beginning to call themselves Frenchmen, just as our fellows are beginning to call themselves Englishmen? They actually talk of France and England as their countries. Theirs, if you please! What is to become of me and you if that way of thinking comes into fashion?

Flucht ist hier nicht die Beschäftigung mit der Vergangenheit, sondern gerade die entschlossene Konzentration auf Gegenwart und Zukunft, die blind ist für das Erbe der Vergangenheit, von dem wir geprägt sind und mit dem wir leben müssen

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the past.

God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.

So those who have faith are blessed with Abraham, who had faith. Galatians 3:9

The Lord will not forsake His people or abandon His heritage. Psalm 94:14

What then can we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found? Romans 4:1

Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.

I finished 'American Born Chinese' in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

If there's somewhere that in no way resembles Eastern Europe, it's Australia.

I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.

I was raised in a normal Gujarati style with all the restrictions and reservations.

My mother and I were alike in one crucial respect: We may have been Russian by birth, but we were English in spirit. She was intensely reserved and private, and seldom showed what she was feeling.

My Hyderabad home is an extension to my family's Delhi residence.

I am a permanent legal resident of this country, I was born in Korea; my parents came to America for a better life for our family, I've lived here nearly my whole life, and even though I consider myself through and through Korean and American, I guess when it comes down to it, anyone can take away my identity. It doesn't belong to me.

My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.