Quotes About Heritage

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.

I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

Where do I belong in this country? Where is home?

When you marry into a Mormon family you marry tribes and nations.

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.

For somehow, against probability, some sort of indigenous, recognizable culture has been growing on western ranches and in western towns and even in western cities. It is the product not of the boomers but of the stickers, not of those who pillage and run but of those who settle, and love the life they have made and the place they have made it in.

Their motto must be "Whiter and whiter every generation," until the grandchildren of the blue veins could easily go over into the white race and become assimilated so that problems of race would plague them no more.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease.

Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor.

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

I'm putting it to my black brothers and sisters that the colour of our skins is the most fundamental thing about us.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native land!Whose heart hath neer within him burnd,As home his footsteps he hath turnd,From wandering on a foreign strand!

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

Sara bit her lip, drawing blood, as she reflected on the many times she'd questioned Mama about her biological father. Who was he, where did he live, and how come Mama refused to talk about

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

Blood is thicker than ink.