Quotes About Heritage

My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

Two prominent terms, 'Latino' and 'Hispanic,' refer to people living in the United States who have roots in Latin America, Spain, Mexico, South America, or Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries.

Every Day is Canada Day for new Canadians

Never complete. Never whole.White skin and an African soul.

learn to experience and learn to respect, i love my culture and i respect iti m proud to be Xhosa

He pouted—full on pouted. A prince. Pouting. - Kara, re: Braeden

Grandparents are extremely rich folks with silver in their hair and gold in their hearts.

There is a love that binds us allIt's in our blood, it's who we areand it's nested in the branches of this treeand it's rooted in the Earth where we keepall of our stories

The best story to tell your kids is that of your own family.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

The three great organized forces through which social heredity operates are: The schools, the churches and the public (Mockingbird) press.

The most privileged were sent to school in France, as both my grandfathers were

Nietzsche had the Latin pun aut liberi, aut libri—either children or books, both information that carries through the centuries.

Empirically, if you want an author to cross a few generations

traditions provide an aggregation of filtered collective knowledge

The future is in the past.

The Discovery of France

These food recipes are embedded in cultures. Cooking schools are entirely apprenticeship based.

The yoke of my birth

the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and, divesting itself of every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief;

And wise Uncle Venner, passing slowly from the ruinous porch, seemed to hear a strain of music, and fancied that sweet Alice Pyncheon-after witnessing these deeds, this bygone woe and this present happiness, of her kindred mortals-had given one farewell touch of a spirit's joy upon her harpsichord, as she floated heavenward from the House of the Seven Gables

The Pilgrims' descendants have proven to be, if nothing else, fruitful. In 2002 it was estimated that there were approximately 35 million descendants of the Mayflower passengers in the United States, which represents roughly 10 percent of the total U.S. population.

By doing their best to destroy the Native people who had welcomed and sustained their forefathers, New Englanders had destroyed their forefathers' way of life.