Quotes About Heritage

This is rural England, after all; please set your watch back thirty years 

Edinburgh has history the way cats have bad breath.

the strongest manacles are born in the blood.

La vita? Che tipo di vita? Mi hai dato il tuo sangue, i tuoi lineamenti e mi hai dato una madre nera. Povera disgraziata! È morta sotto la frusta, perché aveva troppa dignità come donna per voler vendere l'anima. Mi hai dato uno spirito da bianco, poi hai fatto di me uno schiavo, e lo hai schiacciato.

Scions of old families who've hit the skids do like to flaunt their illustrious ancestors....

The world is large," said Okonkwo. "I have even heard that in some tribes a man's children belong to his wife and her family." "That cannot be," said Machi. "You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days..

It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

Un hombre pertenece a la tierra de su padre cuando todo va bien y la vida es agradable. Pero cuando hay penas y amargura se refugia en la tierra de su madre. Tu madre está aquí para protegerte.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their obliteration acknowledged. It is a moral obsession, the lonely legacy passed onto the third and fourth generation who no longer speak Armenian but who carry within them the seeds of resentment that will not be quashed.

A culture," the poet W. H. Auden observed, "is no better than its woods.

Even though there are a lot of misconceptions about me not being an Indian, I am born and brought up in Bandra.

Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.

I have Czech, I have Russian, I have English, I have Italian. Uh, what am I missing? A little bit of Irish. The Russian is Jewish. So I'm your classic American mutt.

Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

I've always loved gospel music. Being raised in Mississippi, it was kind of part of the atmosphere down there.

My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.

Music is in Mississippi's DNA, whether it's the blues, country music, folk, or rock 'n' roll. It's not just a source of cultural pride, but also a strong contributor to our economy.

Missouri has a rich history and diverse heritage that deserves a proper celebration.