Quotes About Heritage

Indians in Kentucky used a 225-mile path between Big Bone Lick and Maysville that they called, simply, "the Buffalo Path.

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

By the elements, you surely have the blood of Jadrin in your veins. A minx, a trickster, like him!

The Magravandians ruined my life before you became a part of it. We share that heritage. We are brothers in it.

The power is in the land and in our blood, but we have lost that special connection with the sea. It has been severed.

There was a feyness about him, something tragic, which might be his stolen heritage.

We are the last flickering remnants of a once-mighty heritage, Val. We should keep that flame alive.

We aren't rednecks. We're European. Big difference.

I thought about my family. It was small by any standard, shrunken to a handful by Hitler, Stalin, and divorce.

From what they have learnt so far, they reckon that some 20–30 per cent of our natural lifespan is accounted for by our genetic heritage, while environmental influences account for the rest.

dozing into her book, so I went into her room and pulled open the bottom drawer where she kept the old family album. Lots of pictures of Mom and me in there, because Dad was

It is not to diffuse you that you were born of you your mother and father, it is to identify you...Walt Whitman

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

For even now, decades after I first adopted it, English does not pierce my heart the same way that my mother tongue does. The word division weighs less than bundan, and war is easier to say than junjeng.

When I first moved to Minnesota, most folks didn't say they were white. They proclaimed their heritage. Germans, Swedes, Norwegians, French. Strange, I thought. When did they become white? Maybe winter changes people into colors. I waited to see.

Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other place.

I have Italian heritage, so I'm keen to go over for a few months with the girls and soak up the culture and the food. I'd like us all to learn Italian together as a family - it's something I've been saying for years.

My dad played for... the Villanueva de la Serena, so I guess that's why I play basketball instead of soccer.

I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.

Soccer runs in my blood.

Policy should not aim to change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada.

My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.

Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.

I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has also led to extraordinary cultural contributions that I'm very proud of, but it's not a real category and our society is damaged by insisting on it.