Quotes About Heritage

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

India is my motherland.

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

As you grow older, you learn to appreciate all the artistry. I'm actually on my way back to the blues, you know, that my mothers and fathers liked.

I went to school with a lot of kids whose fathers and mothers were part of the El Paso black history.

I think it's important for everyone to understand that if you have a background and culture... to really use that as motivation to fuel the fire. It brings meaning to what you do. It's not just sports - whether it's in the classroom, in the office or whatever it may be - it just brings passion and excitement out when there's meaning behind it.

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.

In Winston Churchill's words: We owe London to Rome.34

We are critical of the priests who burned the paper books of the Aztecs because contemporary Europe looked down upon the non-Christian Americans and wanted to destroy their heathen beliefs. But we ourselves have so little esteem for these same beliefs that although the most important ones were recorded by the early Spaniards, we reject them as the fables of primitive nations.

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way – even when these stories concern their own native countries.

The Levant, the land to the east of the Mediterranean, is almost without doubt the region in which the 'Semitic' family of tongues originated, and Arabic has preserved, pristine, many of the earliest features of those tongues.

architecture was what you had instead of landscape, a signal of loss, of imitation. Europe had it in spades...

So, in Melting Pot the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, America was the new world and Europe was the old, in one stroke eradicating the narratives of indigenous persons for whom America was hardly new, and any nonwhite kids whose old worlds had been in Africa or Asia, not Europe.

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

In the South's calculation it took only "one drop" of black blood to make a person black.

Tradition is important," Evans said. "For a soldier, tradition is often the reason one carries on when there are so many reasons not to. It's more than just yourself, more than just your mates—but it's not just something for soldiers, is it? It is true—or should be true—of any professional community.

While he may forget that he is Caesar, I never forget that I am Caesar's daughter.

blissfully unaware of the beautiful tradition they'd been chosen to uphold.

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

People born in New Orleans always go back

THE original Alexandre Dumas was born in 1762, the son of "Antoine Alexandre de l'Isle," in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue. Antoine was a nobleman in hiding from his family and from the law, and he fathered the boy with a black slave. Later Antoine would discard his alias and reclaim his real name and title—Alexandre Antoine Davy, the Marquis de la Pailleterie—and bring his black son across the ocean to live in pomp and luxury near Paris.

Some families ran their own little version of the Middle East.

What I love most about Jerusalem is that it's not about money." "Pardon?" "New York here is a city about money. L.A.'s about money. Las Vegas is about money. Dallas the same. Tokyo and London, Milan, Zurich, Singapore, the whole reason for them is money. Tel Aviv's about money. But Jerusalem, it's not about money." "He is absolutely right," put in Abu. "Jerusalem is about . . . something else.