Quotes About Heritage

I'm the child of immigrants, and there was always a garage filled with food, just in case, and you kept money under the mattress. You were always prepared, because you couldn't trust that you were being taken care of. So that translated into my life into a lot of opportunity hoarding.

If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.

Each generation is trusted with protecting our open spaces and natural resources to pass them on to future Americans to enjoy.

What type of legacy do you want to leave?

Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

I'm a sociable person. I want people to know where the f - I came from.

It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I'm still just a hillbilly at heart, thus a Backwoods Barbie.

It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.

You may baptize as long as you want, but the Jew remains a Jew, the Chinese a Chinese and the Negro a Negro.

I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear it and know that South African music was still alive.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

People should make a stand for the things they love and want to see survive infinite generations.

For me, why would a Jew want to go anywhere in history ever? I'm only going to have to run.

Most people have no idea what Cabo Verde is or even where it is to mention, so I definitely want to make people aware of this beautiful culture.

I'm expected to do what's right; I want to leave a legacy of positivity behind.

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade