Quotes About Heritage

Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are the three mediums through which a language is passed on from one generation to the next.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

When dressing a table take out your old pieces of silver, hand-me-down linens and old candelabras, it will make your meal that much more special.

The mana of the silver fern comes from all of you and I will wear it with pride.

There's always some difference between your Latino and African-American communities. But we definitely have more similarities than differences.

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

There are a lot of similarities between Akshay and my father. Akshay is a Punjabi and so are we. He is Delhi-based and my dad was also from Delhi. I think he would be able to pull off the character.

We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.

Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

I'm from Pennsylvania, and that love for the simplicity of life never left me.

I grew up in the North-East so identifying with mountain people - their simplicity and honesty - comes naturally to me. I even call myself an honorary Garhwali.

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

Those who are nostalgic for traditional folkways have forgotten how hard our forebears fought to escape them.

Who profits from a king's fidelity save generations a thousand years unborn, and which of his works will they recall at that remove, or care?

Gobartes the son of Artabazos

Israel is not only about Bibi and wars; it is about a new generation finding itself through its culture and its food.

I am many things. I don't fit in any box. I'm Israeli, I'm Palestinian, I'm Arab, I'm Muslim, I'm a woman, a mother, and I am enjoying my life as an Israeli but cannot turn my back on my heritage. Is there a point when we will be able to move on?

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward. PSALM 127:3

In a state where more than three hundred African Americans were lynched, many for the simple crime of trying to vote or helping others vote, referencing "our heritage" and calling black protesters sons of bitches in front of an overwhelmingly white audience was the perfect kind of racial pitch. It was heard clearly and undeniably as racist.

I dreamed of my grandparents living there as though they always had with their habits, their rituals, their ways of speaking. With the illusory sense I had as a girl, when my own world was so fragile, that they always would be there. That they would always welcome me and care for me. That they were a place I could always go. A homeland