Quotes About Heritage

I love it when you talk about where you come from," she said, slipping her arm through mine, "you become so alive.

Smithsonian magazine, July 2001, page 55.)

We all need a story of where we came from and how we got here. Otherwise, how could we ever put down our tender roots and stay.

On the bottom shelf M. kept the books from his childhood days: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, the Iliad - they are described in The Noise of Time and happened to have been saved by M.'s father. Most of them later perished in Kalinin when I was fleeing from the Germans. The way we have scurried to and fro in the twentieth century, trapped between Hitler and Stalin!

A man from another hemisphere, another background, coming to rest in middle life in the cottage of a half-neglected estate, an estate full of reminders of its Edwardian past, with few connections with the present. An oddity among the estates and big houses of the valley, and I a further oddity in its grounds. I felt unanchored and strange.

Thy mother honored us. We do not forget. - The yarthkin, to Thorgil

que voy de nuevo entre las calles, entre orichas, entre el calor oscuro y corpulento, entre los colegiales que declaman Martí, entre los automóviles, entre los nichos, entre mamparas, entre la Plaza del pueblo, entre los negros, entre guardacantones, entre los parques, entre la ciudad vieja, entre el viejo viejo Cerro, entre mi Catedral, entre mi puerto aquí vuelvo a decír: amor, ciudad atribuída (de Amor, Ciudad Atribuída)

While Mar-A-Lago was later categorized as an example of Hispano-Mooresque architecture because of its stucco exterior, antique tile embellishments, rambling outbuildings and red-tiled roof, the estate was actually a carefully crafted amalgam of architectural styles blended together to display the most admirable features of several European countries.

Fathers - half of anyone's life seemed to be about who fathered them.

Curiosity goes hand in hand with intellect, and intellect runs in the family.

Since middle-class women have been sequestered from the world, isolated from one another, and their heritage submerged with each generation, they are more dependent than men are in the cultural models to offer, and more likely to be imprinted by them. [...] Given few role models in the world, women seek them on the screen and the glossy page.

Get off this estate. What for? Because it's mine. Where did you get it? From my father. Where did he get it? From his father. And where did he get it? He fought for it. Well, I'll fight you for it.

Men and women of the present day are, to those we might hope to bring into existence, what the pariah dogs of the streets of an Eastern town are to our own highly-bred varieties," Galton predicted.

When he bred them, he would discover variations among their offspring.

In the 1400s, people began to use a new word to define a group of animals that shared the same blood: a race.

Everybody's genome is like a book with 23 chapters," he told them. "You have two copies of each chapter, one from your dad and one from your mom. Whole genome sequencing looks for everything. It looks for missing chapters, missing paragraphs, every misspelled word.

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

Tell our stories to the world, and never forget that we exist so long as someone remembers us.

as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive

La mayoría de las tradiciones no son más que las enfermedades de una sociedad.

Llevamos el circo en la sangre.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

We have the circus in our blood.