Quotes About Heritage

Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.

Do I want to know where I came from? Yes. But that doesn't impact who I want to be.

I'd understood how salt water ran through some veins and not in others, like a blood type that identified those who belonged here.

We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it. We must not as for more.

I love anything old. I love to travel and especially like to visit the places where my books are set. My husband and I often stay in out-of-the-way inns and houses built in times past. It's fun and it gives a wonderful sense of a by-gone era.

We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

Then they were moving again. Frank told her it was because of Benni, the nursemaid who looked after them. Benni was half Chinese, that golden skin. Her mother was ordinary Australian, was how Benni put it. That

A broken off chip of England resting on the surface of this place.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

Long ago, before England was cut up with pavement, or bisected by railways, there existed in the county of Lancashire a small village named Reston that never bothered anyone.

I am more English than the English.- Rudolf de Vitt

Life in a palace rather resembles camping in a museum

But just because stories are unwritten for a time, it doesn't mean they'll be unwritten forever. And just because stories don't get written down, it doesn't mean they're ever lost. We carry them in our minds, our hearts, our very bones. We honour them by passing them on, letting them live on in others, too. — foreword by Alicia Elliott

You aren't taking any more of our children.

One of the Spaniards' first actions during the Reconquest was to destroy the Moorish baths.

Pictures and words don't hurt anyone, except for those who are afraid of history.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

Tradition is not a childish and outmoded mythology but a science that is terribly real. (...la tradition n'est pas une mythologie puérile et désuète, mais une science terriblement réelle.)

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

I have already told you that certain fragments of this knowledge happened to remain intact and passed from generation to generation through a very limited number of initiated beings there.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

And as any mixed-race person will tell you — to be half of two things is to be a whole of nothing.

You are American, Japanese, Korean and by being all of those things, you are not truly any of those things.