Quotes About Heritage

to someone in the next generation. There is transgenerational transmission—something is passed on to the next generation.

Humankind, more than any other species, can take the accumulated, distilled experiences of previous generations and pass these inventions, beliefs, and skills to the next generation. This is sociocultural evolution.

If we truly want to understand ourselves, we need to understand our history—our true history. Because the emotional residue of our past follows us.

History was a subject that bored me in middle and high school, but I devoured it now. It seemed to hold some of the essential pieces to the identity questions I was asking. How could I know who I was if I didn't have a clue as to where I'd personally and collectively come from? What does it mean to be an American is all caught up in what did it mean to be one. Only some combination of those answers could lead you to what it might mean to be an American.

We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down.

hailing from Sorrento, Italy, via Brooklyn via Ellis Island.

We stand on the shoulders of revisionist authors such as Andrew Torget, Andrés Tijerina, Jesús F. de la Teja, Jeff Long, and Paul D. Lack, whose work is an antidote to the "Heroic Anglo Narrative" that's held sway in Texas for going on two hundred years.

Our DNA does not fade like an ancient parchment; it does not rust in the ground like the sword of a warrior long dead. It is not eroded by wind or rain, nor reduced to ruin by fire and earthquake. It is the traveller from an ancient land who lives within us all.

We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.

DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.

I have in my hand the end of the thread which connects me to my ancestral mother way at the back. I pull on the thread and one woman's face in every generation feeling the tug, looks up at me.

There is something greater than any nation; it is the spirit which created the nation.

The spark once transmitted may smoulder for generations under ashes, but the appointed time will come, and it will flare up to warm the world. God never allows waste. And we fools rub our eyes and wonder, when we see genius come out of the gutter. It didn't begin there. We tell ourselves that Shakespeare was the son of a woolpedlar, and Napoleon of a farmer, and Luther of a peasant, and we hold up our hands at the marvel. But who knows what kings and prophets they had in their ancestry!

Most of you who are reading this book feel a deep-down ancient bond, a connection between yourself and horses.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

about Sidney, who wants to be a writer or a forest ranger or a composer or anything except what his father is, because he's ashamed of his father being a Jew, or because he thinks he's too sensitive for business or law, whatever the damned Freudian reason may be—and he ends up in his father's business just the same. I've opened my apartment door to enough of those." Noel crooked

For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of their own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best.

La Media se componía de diferentes pueblos o tribus, que son los busas, paretacenos, estrujates, arizantos, budios y magos.

The purpose is to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time...

For one's native place is the shell of one's soul, and one's church is the kernel of that nut.

When you have lost your inns, you may drown your empty selves. For you have lost the heart of England.

Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.

contemplating the incidents in their lives or condition which tradition has handed down to us

As time went on, the meaning of "tribe" was no longer clamped entirely to birth. Newcomers to a Greek city were often assigned a tribe at random—no matter who their forefathers might have been. But once you had your tribal label, it was unchangeable. Despite vocational liberties, preordained identities still stuck to you like glue.