Quotes About Heritage

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Icelanders are among the most inbred human beings on earth—geneticists often use them for research.

a society dedicated solely to the preservation of her past, soon has only her past to sell.

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are within and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

He believed that we live on only as long as our story is told. I believe that too.

One does not part willingly with early loyalties or early traditions, and indeed the rolling years do but confirm them.

We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.

Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to that one brother or wife who cannot stand a silent fate in Boston or London or Melbourne. I've met many who remain haunted by the persistent ghost of an earlier place.

if you do not plunder the past, the absence feeds on you

Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

In borrowing from a food culture, pay attention to how a culture eats as well as to what it eats.

How a people eats is one of the most powerful ways they have to express, and preserve, their cultural identity...To make food choices more scientific is to empty them of their ethnic content and history;

My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The arrow of natural history won't be reversed: by now the Jonathan's as much an American as I am.

In many cases science has confirmed what culture has long known

Traditional diets are more than the sum of their food parts.

DON'T EAT ANYTHING YOUR GREAT GRANDMOTHER WOULDN'T RECOGNIZE AS FOOD.

which the Indians called barbacoa

A maneira de comer é um dos meios mais poderoso que um povo tem de expressar e preservar sua identidade cultural. (...) Tornar as opções alimentares mais científicas é esvaziá-las de seu conteúdo étnico e de sua história.

How a people eats is one of the most powerful ways they have to express, and preserve, their cultural identity...To make food choices more scientific is to empty them of their ethnic content and history; --Harvey Levenstein

I'm hugely fond of Scotland. My daughter, Jemma, was born in the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, and it always tickled me that she was so vexed she didn't have a Scottish accent even though she was brought up down south.

In my 40s, the two cultures finally came to peace with one other inside me, and I have come to identify myself as both 100% Chinese and 100% American simultaneously.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.