Quotes About Heritage

People don't leave their homeland simply because governments stage events. One's native land is not like the soil we put in flowerpots, where we pour water and fertilizer and then change the soil after an interval.

Zakhor. Al Tichkah. Remember. Never forget.

Zakhor, Al Tichkah.' Souviens-toi. N'oublie jamais.

The old African proverb says, 'The ax forgets; the tree remembers.' I saw how horrifically it injured us to identify with our oppressors. If we were to keep our souls whole, we couldn't afford to forget. We had to remember.

But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.

Dwayne is right: blood does call to blood. I was always waiting for hers to beckon to mine, but I never considered that it would be my blood that would call upon hers.

But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land. I'm not talking bad about Eloe.

she is country, too. But let her tell it, she's a "southern woman,

I needed her to say that it didn't make a difference, that I was myself, not my gnarled family tree.

Casa tua non è il posto dove atterri ; è quello da cui decolli . Non è possibile scegliersi una casa, come non lo è scegliersi una famiglia. Nel poker ti toccano cinque carte. Tre le puoi scambiare, ma due te le devi tenere: la famiglia e la terra in cui sei nato.

home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.

There is nothing like a Puerto Rican grandmother.

Non omnis moriar [No moriré del todo]».

These lands are ours. No one has a right to remove us, because we were the first owners. The Great Spirit above has appointed this place for us, on which to light our fires, and here we will remain. As to boundaries, the Great Spirit knows no boundaries, nor will his red children acknowledge any.

At noon of the first day of every year, it is traditional for the crier to recite a passage of verse, an ode composed long ago for this annual celebration, which takes exactly one hour to deliver

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

I'm always proud to wear the colours of Spain.

Representing Spain is very important.

Play with Spain? I think that's already closed, but even so, I opt for France because I'm French. I don't have dual citizenship, and I'm not going to ask for it.

I don't have family in Mexico. Nothing. I'm just from Spain.

I feel like flamenco is part of this Latin music culture. It's from Spain, but flamenco has always been connected to Latinoamerica.

Our nation was built on chips and Spam fritters.