Quotes About Heritage

He is Englishness carried to perfection

The knowledge we seek isn't something new. It's old. Really old. Once upon a time people possessed it and they used it to do great things, miraculous things. They should have held on to it. They should have respected it. But they didn't. They abandoned it for the sake of something they called progress. And it's up to us to get it back. We're not doing this for ourselves; we're doing it for humanity.

Perdute le radici della propria cultura si cerca di rattoppare con le esistenze passate il grigiore e l'incertezza del presente.

The Old Way: A Story of the First People

There is a word, sad and resonant, for the last member of a dying species. The word is endling.

If America is a melting pot, New Orleans is where it comes to a boil.

Quiérase o no, siempre se es bilingüe desde una lengua, aquella en la que uno se aposenta primero, siquiera provisoriamente, aquella en la que uno se reconoce.

There is no sign of a mathematical pedigree in Nash's ancestry or any indication that mathematics was much in the air at the Nash household.

I think I may well be a Jew.

In the German tongue, in the Polish town Scraped flat by the roller Of wars, wars, wars ...

Modern innovations in Benidorm have not disturbed the rhythm of native customs.

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living.

It [tradition] cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch. I am not Russian at all; I come from Lithuania, I am a real German. (Eliot's translation)

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch

Culture is not enough, even though nothing is enough without culture.

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.

evidently Europeans cannot stop themselves from giving new names to people and places. I guess it must be hard to stop after all those centuries of renaming stuff in the colonies.

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

As far as I was concerned, a little danger of head-shrinking is a small price to pay in return for a people who have remained true to an ancient code.

That Morocco is not just another Arab country. It's a crossroads – between Africa and Europe, and between Arabia and what lies west, beyond the Atlantic. But...' Ghita said, her voice touched with an undertone of pride, 'beyond all else it's Berber.

Hamid Dabashi, Iran: A People Interrupted

Here she forgot her country, all but a ghost of it, only the voices of her ancestors, her race, reminded her, and sometimes her dreams.