Quotes About Heritage

Das Roß fegt dahin zwischen sanft geschwungenen, grauglitzernden Buchenstämmen — quer durchs deutsche Märchen, durchs nächtige, reiten die Vettern hinüber zum Hohlweg, zum Treffpunkt — hinter sich verbrennend alle Schiffe und Brücken.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

The man-dog contract goes back to before the invention of writing, before the invention of the wheel, even before the invention of agriculture. In that sense, living with dogs may be one of the oldest surviving cultural landmarks of our heritage, a surviving fragment of the Stone Age.

For everyone in this occupation, the skyline of New York is a family tree.

To a Scot, the past clings like sand to wet feet, and is carried about as a burden. The many ghosts are always a part of them, inescapable.

To a Scot, the past clings like sand to wet feet

Over Basken] Hun taal knarst als een spijkerschrift

Up men to your posts Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.

Sister?" Jessie Kay scowled. "Do I really look like his sister? I clearly come from grade-A stock while his ancestors made a few poor choices along the way.

Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

Xander, have you ever googled "Mayflower" and "Billingtons"? Because I did. And it turns out one of your ancestors almost blew up the ship. And another one got hanged for murder after they landed in America. Ed. Note: 100% TRUE (you can google this)

Honor the names that you bear, because someday you will have the privilege and the obligation of reporting to [your ancestors] (and your Father in Heaven) what you have done with their name.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

For better or worse, I was my father's son, and I intuited, however unclearly, that my life was inextricably bound up with his. I was who I was because of him. His blood was in my blood, his history was my history. Even my future, the person I might one day become, depended on him, because everything he'd ever seen or done or thought or felt flowed up through him and into me.

Up, men, and to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from Old Virginia.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Let us be French, let us be English, but above all, let us be Canadians! - John A. MacDonald, First Prime Minister of Canada

Let us be French, let us be English, but above all, let us be Canadians!

It is interesting to note that Copernicus was German/Polish, Luther was German, and Gutenberg was German.

The nation provided a human with the things that are most human—language and a past that stretched back before his birth.