Quotes About Heritage

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

Traditions are our roots and a profile of who we are as individuals and who we are as a family. They are our roots, which give us stability and a sense of belonging - they ground us.

I have always lived abroad, but inside my family, we always speak in Bosnian and preserve all the Bosnian traditions. So it's always inside me, always in my heart.

Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you.

I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

I make our family traditions a priority.

If you grow up with traditions in your family, it's always nice to be able to get home and have those moments.

I have great respect for Catholic traditions; my family is Catholic, and it's part of my life.

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam.

There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.

You like to think that you're bigger than your traditions and customs, but they form who you are.

What makes Harlem special is that at any given time, food seekers can not only find food deeply rooted in Southern, Latin and African traditions, but also can taste the newer Senegalese, Chinese, and Italian influences as well.

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten.

Most of our American musical heritage is based on European models, but the folk hymns and spirituals are one of the most fertile and unique of our American musical traditions.

Civilisations which get cut off from their traditions and values do not survive for long.

As my parents are from India, I am told a lot of positive things about the country, the culture and traditions of Muslims in India. I don't remember anything nasty told to me by my parents.

I remember when I drove into Notre Dame, getting ready for the first day of work. I had an electrical charge go up my back because I realized all of a sudden that I was responsible for the traditions that the Knute Rocknes and the Frank Leahys had set, and what Notre Dame stood for.

Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.

There's a reason why the cultures of so many Chinatowns around the world in some ways are more Chinese. They've held onto older Chinese rituals, traditions, and symbols in ways that, if you go back to China today, they're not holding on to. They're getting married in white dresses and in churches.

Americans are locked into our traditions.

I believe that the traditions of our country should be upheld and I'm a real advocate of business.