Quotes About Heritage

How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.

New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.

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In the future, I will have grandchildren who speak Dutch, Swedish, and Spanish. If they don't learn Arabic, they will be strangers to each other. They won't have any traces of where we came from. They won't be Syrian. And I will live in exile and die in exile.

Avant de penser qu'ils vous aiment ou prennent soin de vous, n'oubliez pas de vous rappeler comment ils ont traité vos ancêtres. Rappelles toi!

Before you think they love you or care for you, don't forget to remember how they treated your ancestors. Remember!

Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-red The stripes forever gleam; Snow-white and soul-white - The good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright - The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

Ay, this is the famed rock, which HerculesAnd Goth and Moor bequeathed us. At this doorEngland stands sentry.

I am a biological and cultural mongrel and proud of it; in mind and body, I am a product of all classes and races and nations. I don't pretend to be racially or socially pure like you, or a chauvinist like you, petty fascist of all nations, races, and classes.

All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people.

Muito recentemente é que nós estamos conquistando espaço para podermos contar a história segundo o nosso olhar, o olhar dos indígenas, ou seja, sob uma visão de mundo particular. Não se pode pensar que a nossa história segue o mesmo percurso da ocidental. E isso é um outro nó, que necessita ser desatado.

Levei um tempo para compreender que a palavra "tribo" é mais uma forma colonialista de se referir a algumas culturas que eram consideradas inferiores. É um termo que reduziu a cultura de um povo a apenas uma manifestação cultural.

Desenvolvemos determinado pensamento sobre o índio, o qual vem sendo repetido à exaustão desde há muito tempo, revelando que não sabemos, de fato, quem é o índio e quais são suas especificidades culturais.

Eles [os indígenas] são parte de cada brasileiro que aqui habita, até dos que não têm ascendência indígena alguma, pois não se trata de sangue, mas, sim, de pertencimento.

Por causa disso tudo é que decidi, quando estava com 9 anos de idade, que, ao me tornar adulto, não seria índio, e sim um ser humano civilizado, capacitado para contribuir com o meu país. O que eu não sabia, no entanto, é que ser índio era algo que estava inscrito dentro de mim; não bastava dizer palavras mágicas para isso desaparecer.

Um povo sem memória ancestral é um povo perdido no tempo e no espaço.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

Ça fait du bruit, une pensée, et le goût de lire est un héritage du besoin de dire.

The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality.

El conocimiento es patrimonio de la humanidad.

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

SI is Samuel Isakowitz, my father." Isherwood's voice choked with tears. "This painting was taken from my father's gallery on the rue de la Boétie in Paris by the Nazis in June of 1940." "You're certain?" Anna asked. "I'd stake my life on it." "Then please accept it, along with the deepest apologies of the Rolfe family." Then she kissed his cheek and said, "I'm so sorry, Mr. Isherwood.

weighty ashlars of the Western Wall.