Quotes About Heritage

I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.

Folk music is the heart of the Indian music scene for several years.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world for over 100 years.

Through the years, Madam Walker has certainly become a staple of anything that has to do with black history, women's history and entrepreneurship.

My real name is Joseph Herbert. My dad is white; my mom's Asian, Filipino. And when I started stand-up 22 years ago, I used to go up as Joseph Herbert, and I would just have to defend my name. Every time I went onstage, it was so annoying. People would heckle.

Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Tradition is a very powerful force.

I've studied my culture deeply and I'm very aware of my tradition.

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

I'm a big tradition guy. If you love this country and study history, then you will love Boston.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

When I was in high school, I looked for the black presence in a British historical tradition - before too much slavery and empire - that would not cost me my self-respect.

We have years of tradition in lucha libre in Mexico.