Quotes About Heritage

Éste es el único consuelo que tenemos nosotros, los hijos de este país incendiado, condenados como estamos a recordar y averiguar y lamentar, y luego a componer canciones para el incendio.

Los pueblos sin tradición están abocados a la soledad más hosca

Nadie tiene derecho a derribar de un capirotazo lo que las generaciones previas erigieron con infinito esfuerzo: porque en el esfuerzo de esas generaciones hay mucho amor insomne, muchos sacrificios ímprobos, muchas lágrimas vertidas, muchos júbilos compartidos

Quienes nos precedieron nos entregaron un tesoro que tenemos la obligación de custodiar; pero no pasivamente, como si fuese una pieza arqueológica, sino con el esmero creativo con que cuidamos un árbol restallante de savia, para que nos brinde una sombra cada vez más frondosa

My heart in the East But the rest of me far in the West— How can I savor this life, even taste what I eat? How, in the bonds of the Moor, Zion chained to the Cross, Can I do what I've vowed to and must? Gladly I'd leave All the best of grand Spain For one glimpse of the ruined Shrine's dust.

In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the longue durée , the long term: that which survives the vicissitudes of changing governments, newfangled fashions or technological improvements, an ongoing inheritance that can both imprison and inspire.

our world is a product of the medieval past

Poverty is the curse of ancient but numerous lineages.

Self-esteem wasn't the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal.

Germany was then a collection of states that had been bundled together in a union called the German Confederation in 1815 after Napoleon was defeated. (The country would not exist as one nation until 1871.) Some of the states had sided with France in the Napoleonic Wars, but the largest and most powerful—Prussia—was allied with England. One small state, Hanover, was, oddly, ruled from London by the English kings, who were Hanoverian by heritage.

I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote -- first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

Sin raíces no somos nada, es como si no tuviéramos los pies firmes sobre la tierra. Debe de ser terrible no saber quién es uno, y claro, eso sólo podemos saberlo si conocemos la historia de nuestros mayores.

Francesca: It's still a bit cold yet. Michael: Never stopped John and me. Francesca: Yes, well, you're Scottish. Your blood circulates quite well half frozen.

He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and multiply.

Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything...It was a wonder he didn't drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade.

What he needs to do," Angus wheezed, "is travel south to Kintyre, turn back north and cross the Firth of Lorne to Mull so that he can scoot out to Iona, sail up to Skye, cross over to the mainland to Ullapool, back down to Inverness, pay his respects at Culloden, and from there, he can proceed south to Blair Castle, stopping in Grampian if he chooses so he can see how a proper bottle of whisky is made.

Die Geburt von Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset, Earl of Clyvedon, gab Anlass zu großen Feierlichkeiten.

They had that air about them - five hundred years of breeding and a membership to White's.

Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset, el niño con más nombres de los que cualquier niño pudiera necesitar, era el heredero de uno de los ducados más antiguos y ricos de Inglaterra.

I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

I am an Indian, and I know what India is. I know Indian culture. I know Indian constitution and democracy.

I will always call Darmstadt, Indiana, home.