Quotes About Heritage

Tinsel on our Christmas trees is a Hart family staple started by my grandmother, Helen Hart.

My grandfather taught me trees and the Latin names of trees when I was five or six. His father was a forester, so he knew them all.

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.

You know, I think that anything you do at Apple... you feel a tremendous onus. You want to carry on the legacy of what it meant.

The U.K. was extremely important to my father and continues to be a place of tremendous goodwill for my family and I.

With 'CCSKNH,' we are planning to carry forward the rich legacy of the state. Though there haven't been many Haryanvi films, the state has tremendous potential.

Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.

Time Team' is by definition very static. Once you're in that field and you've dug your trenches, that's it.

I have a profound interest in embroidery, as I have female ancestors on both sides who embroidered their way through great trials.

I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

Millets are an integral part of tribal life and a staple diet of tribals of Odisha since time immemorial.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

My own special knowledge is about the Abenaki people and, to some degree, my Iroquois neighbors. But whenever I write anything about another tribal nation, I always get a lot of help. Not just from books, but from people who belong to that tribal nation.

All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Tribal designs are a part of my heritage. It boils down to the influences from my father, Viv Richards' side.

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

My dad raised me on everything from his music to Stevie Wonder to A Tribe Called Quest. I learned the 'Midnight Marauders' album in and out.

Poyha is a venison dish handed down from the Cherokee tribe. You can think of it as a meatloaf, which it is, or as a skillet of cornbread that some venison sneaked into, which it also is. Either way, it's a simple and satisfying meal.