Quotes About Heritage

The past is the father of the present.

Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.

It is a grief to Sir Gervase, yes, that he has no son to inherit his name?

The past is the father of the present," said Poirot sententiously. He

Quite nice-looking in a kind of way, but rather as though she might have what my mother used to call "a touch of the tar-brush.

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.

Where are you from, Jews?" asked the rabbi as people used to ask in the old days. An ancient grief glazed his eyes.

And Egypt?What is Egypt's strength? Her resilience? Her ability to Her ability to absorb people and events into the pores of her being? Is that true or is it just a consolation? A shifting of responsibility? And if it is true, how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt?

And so the very thing that should make Egypt strong - the richness and diversity of her culture - serves to divide her and make her weak.

The building is rather like a medieval Castle and was established in the Sixth Century and soon afterwards, as the Moslem armies advanced Westwards from the Arabian Peninsula, somebody had the prescience to build a small Mosque in its courtyard to guard against it being burned or demolished. At the time of the Crusades it was the turn of the Monastery to protect the Mosque, and so it has been down the ages, each House of God extending its shelter to the other as opposing armies came and went.

The damage done by colonial powers to the heritage of conquered peoples is irreversible; yet racial memory is a collective storehouse that time and history cannot eradicate.

When Allah had made the rest of the world, He saw that there was a lot of rubbish left over, bits and pieces and things that did not fit anywhere else. He collected them all together and threw them down on to the earth. That was Afghanistan

It is not a dead society that we want to revive. We leave that to those who go in for exoticism.

my negritude riddles with holesthe dense affliction of its worthy patience.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

Good genes—that's what people have always said about me. They're talking about the fact that I am tall and thin, that I have a nearly symmetrical face. What they are not talking about are the other genes I've inherited.

I admit that I keep in my mind a romantic notion of an essential Blackness—and I use it as armor.

It seems I come from a line that is overly emotional and deficient in reason. People have often praised us as sensitive and generous, but we appear to me to have a measure of sentimentality and absurdity in our blood.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back down the line. - From The Brooklyn Nine

There was no letter in the Jewish stars though. No matter where we had come from, we had no country. We were only Jews.

That photo was taken in Bialystok, Poland, sometime around 1725.

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.