Quotes About Heritage

The art critic and philosopher John Berger once said that we like to look at animals because it reminds us of the past and the  agrarian life that included the regular presence of animals.

Taking books away from a culture is to take away its shared memory.

Taking books away from a culture is to take away its shared memory. It's like taking away the ability to remember your dreams. Destroying a culture's books is sentencing it to something wose than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.

Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know.

understood how fundamental books were to Jewish culture, theology, and identity

The number of books destroyed or spoiled was equal to the entirety of fifteen typical branch libraries. It was the greatest loss to any public library in the history of the United States.

Destroying a culture's books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.

Destroying a culture's books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

We are the result of the love of thousands.

Only memory cannot be burned.

There was inside her a core of fury and independence and self-preservation, the genetic heritage of survival.

Oh, silly people at court care, because they're the sort of fools who believe that one's ancestors are much more important than one's personal merit. Prove you're the great-great-great granddaughter of some medieval king's illegitimate whelp, as she did, and they'll fawn all over you and give you money, entry into the right houses, introductions to the right people…

His looks were the result of a genetic crapshoot.

Prince Stefan's] family was of Eastern European descent, with some real royalty thrown in via a connection to Vlad the Impaler—who hung from a branch that Ian wouldn't kept secret had the family tree been growing in his yard.

My rage is a kind of domestic rage. I learned it from my mother Who learned it from her mother before her And so on. Surely the Greeks had a word for this.

Small, bluish tubers that don't look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any patato. 'Katniss,' I said aloud. It's the plant I was named for. And I heard my father's voice joking, 'As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve.

It's Lucy Gray and I'm not really from Twelve," she said. "My people are Covey. Musicians by trade. We just took a wrong turn one day and were obliged to stay.

No podéis robarme el pasado. No podéis robarme mi historia.

I got my father's blood." The kind that quickens during a hunt, not an epidemic.

You can't take my past. You can't take my history.

Small, bluish tubers that don't look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. "Katniss," I said aloud. It's the plant I was named for. And I heard my father's voice joking, "As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve.

That's what I'm talking about!' Grandma Bee said, vindicated. 'He can hunt for food the way his ancestors did! Eating meals from a can is an insult to his noble lineage.

There are thousands of folklore, but in every case the sacrifice must have been kept up.