Quotes About Heritage

My mother's mother's family moved north from Mexico having migrated from Spain, from Portugal, from Ireland, and likely from an Indian village somewhere.

Raz was one of those vanguard human beings of indeterminate ethnicity, the magnificent mutts that I hope we are all destined to become given another millennium of intermixing. His skin was a rich pecan color from his dad, who was part African American and part native Hawaiian. His hair, straight and glossy black, and the almond shape of his eyes came from his Japanese grandmother. But their color was the cool blue he'd inherited from his mum, a Swedish windsurfing champion.

I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy."

Like father, like son.

Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.

Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Scrolls: write on them what you want to be remembered for.

I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

Nothing succeeds like one's own successor.

Our mothers and our grandmothers, some of them: moving to music not yet written.

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.

Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.

The past is our very being.

The more I see of other countries the more I love my own.