Quotes About Heritage

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Selma vjerovatno nije u pravu, ali ne osje?a nikakvu simpatiju prema ljudima koji se odri?u svog porijekla. .... Ne daj Bože da ikad prestane da pati zbog te bijede, da ikad zaboravi pogled tih seljanki, pogled pun nade, zatim prebacivanja kad su se vrata ko?ije zatvorila. ...znaju li uopšte da kao svi drugi imaju pravo na život

a myth is the matrix that is transformed from culture to culture, but basically remains essentially the same.

Most of these displaced Acadians traveled south to the vicinity of New Orleans and would later be known as Cajuns.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Graham was not only the original quantitative analyst, to whom today's whole school of such thinking owes its heritage, but he was also a source of much of the fundamental analysis and lore that Wall Streeters follow today.

As goes the family, so goes the faith; as goes the faith, so goes the culture.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

THE YEAR WAS 1988. I had taken a job helping young people on the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation in northern Minnesota to collect the memories of the tribal elders. It was a wonderful job, and tremendously rewarding. As well as working with young people, I had the good fortune to meet and share time with the elders. I sat at their tables, heard their stories, shared their laughter, and felt their sadness. It was a profoundly human time, and I valued it more than I can express.

For more than two decades I have tried, honestly and respectfully, to walk the difficult line between the world of Native America and the world of those of us whose people came, willingly or otherwise, to these American shores. I have done this because I believe that we, as Americans, are poorly served by our willful avoidance of the true facts of our national experience, and also because I believe that the lives and ways of the Native American peoples have much to teach us all. It

Following the Nez Perce Trail is

No generation can escape history.

But Argos can do without the sons of Atreus.Ancient houses are not eternal.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure.

A purely causalistic psychology is only able to reduce every human individual to a member of the species Home sapiens, since its range is limited to what is transmitted by heredity or derived from other sources. But a work of art is not transmitted or derived–it is a creative reorganization of those very conditions to which a causalistic psychology must always reduce it.

old Carnegie building

old Carnegie library

it made me think of all the generations who had lived in this City, dashing and scurrying through their lives, some to leave great monuments and dynasties of children, others rushing only to oblivion.

She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who'd died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.

We need to help students and parent cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community--and this nation.

Still, a custom that has not been strictly outlawedmay always be revived.

were adopted by Nelly, isn't that right?

Para los más jóvenes aquel apellido sonoro y agudo que oían pronunciar de vez en cuando estaba vagamente ligado a la leyenda de aquellos parajes, a sus historias más antiguas, ciertas o no, y a algunas personas muertas mucho tiempo atrás que antes de abandonar este mundo se encargaron de dejar bien grabado su nombre en la memoria colectiva.