Quotes About Heritage

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

When I am dead and in my head And all my bones are are rotten, Take this book and think of me And mind I'm not forgotten.

Traditions and customs which had lasted for centuries did not die out in a moment.

Il presidente del Senegal, il poeta Leopold Sedar Senghor, ci ha detto in un incontro: "Presto, non perdete tempo. Girate l'Africa nera, in lungo e in largo per ascoltare gli ultimi nostri cantastorie. Ogni vecchio griot che muore è una biblioteca che brucia".

And as the Cherokee walked farther from his mountains, he began to die.

J'ai rêvé d'être un électron libre mais on ne peut pas se couper éternellement de ses racines.

Aufruf an alle Industrielle und Politiker in aller Welt: Bitte hinterlassen Sie die Welt so, wie Sie sie beim Betreten vorgefunden haben.

Toprak ebedi bir güç mmembas?yd?, çünkü o gerçek Anam?zd?, bizi besler ve ayr?ca ba?r?nda atalar?m?z? saklard?. Tabiatta dönü?üm onda gerçekle?irdi.

We call each other the Hin-Jews because he's Tamilian, and the Tamils of Southern India came from Ethiopia just as the Hebrews from Palestine came from Ethiopia. The DNA is the same.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.

The kind of people who spoke mostly Yiddish, which is a combination of German and phlegm. This is a language of coughing and spitting; until I was eleven, I wore a raincoat.

Ours may be the heritage of the withheld promises. We have been blessed through the endurance and faithfulness of those who have suffered in the past; the people around us, or those who will succeed us, may be blessed through our trials and suffering and how we react to them.

Daniel and his companions were tempted to forsake their godly heritage but they refused. They even faced a fiery furnace rather than compromise.

If ever a generation was bequeathed the knowledge of God, we were. Yet we are throwing away this glorious heritage on our lust and passions.

God honored and blessed America as few nations in history. However, in recent years the nation has been moving away from its religious heritage.

A godlikeness of character is the Christian's proper heritage in this earthly walk.

Spiritually, we have wandered far from the faith of our fathers . . . no nation which relegates the Bible to the background, which disregards the love of God and flouts the claims of the Man of Galilee, can long survive.

I'm a history nut.

I like old things. They have an aura of the past... and I wonder whose hands have touched them. Their long histories give them depth and personality. My dream is to travel in pursuit of those histories... and find my own special place.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

Behind me there were ghosts of people like a trailing fog as far as I could see -- grandfathers of grandfathers and grandmothers of grandmothers without number.