Quotes About Heritage

David McCullough has said, "We are shaped by those we never met.

My parents, like so many others in the darker nation, shared the family stories of achievement but omitted the details of racial slights and discrimination, as if the telling were subject to what the historian Jonathan Holloway describes as a "psychologically enduring editor's pencil." So for me, writing this book has been a journey of discovery

You might say that the North won the war and the South won the peace. But that's not entirely accurate. The North won progress. The South won heritage. The North won the future. The South won the past. And it is not clear at all which is more powerful. The reconciliation is "how we chose to lie to each other for a hundred and fifty years,

It turns out that, far from the world being a common genetic melting pot with massive to-and-fro prehistoric movements and mixings, the majority of the members of the modern human diaspora have conservatively stayed put in the colonies their ancestors first established. They

It is right to pay heed to the stories of our people, for that is how we learn who we are and what is required of us in this life and the life beyond.

Call Malcolm Price (Pricey) a 'chancer' and you would be wrong. Pricey has, with premeditated determination, won his battles and hung his gloves up; his story is no less dramatic or tantalising than that of his Welsh ancestors.

I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. ... I am a librarian ... ! Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, 1999. Line spoken by Rachel Weisz as Evie Carnahan)

I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champmedy. I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.

Now more than ever we are all becoming more aware about the need to conserve our precious living heritage.

Family history isn't full of happy endings, Jefferson. You know that. And isn't that one of the allures of the job? It's the skeletons in the closet that get people like us out of bed in the morning, isn't it?

Things live on a whole lot longer when they are living in story and memory." "Okay,

If Mozart had been born a Kalahari Bushman, he'd have been known as the best drummer in his family.

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. —Thich Nhat Hanh, Present Moment Wonderful Moment

My father died in 1957, just before I was born. My mother went to her Jewish aunt, who slammed the door in her face.

My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.

The biggest thing is, I can never forget where I come from. That's why I wear Miami on my sleeve. I never forget where I grew up.

I wear my Judaism on my sleeve - and my face for that matter.

Americans needs to understand that the election of Donald Trump has forestalled our slide into the abyss of cultural Marxism and the surrendering of our national heritage and identity to that of the global community.

I'd happily cover the British Open every year until St. Andrews slides into the sea or Scotland runs out of beer, whichever happens first.

I don't think the monarchy is tawdry in the slightest. I think the monarchy is hugely important for Britain.

I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.