Quotes About Heritage

Culture, of course, is an extremely vague word, covering everything from the shaping of hand-axes to corporate mission statements, as well as the finer appreciation of the sonnets of Shakespeare and the paintings of Hokusai;

over half the languages in the world, for example, have fewer than five thousand speakers, and over a thousand languages have under a dozen.

Languages make possible both the living of a common history, and also the telling of it.

Languages change, as they pass from the lips of one generation to the next, but there is nothing about this process of transmission which makes for decay or extinction. Like life itself, each new generation can receive the gift of its language afresh. And so it is that languages, unlike any of the people who speak them, need never grow infirm, or die. Every language has a chance of immortality, but this is not to say that it will survive for ever.

You know my last name, but I didn't catch yours." "Danko," she said. Then, anticipating his next question: "My dad is from Slovakia." "That's near Kansas, right?

My father's grandfather was in Heart Mountain.

I actually went to study with the Ramapoughs in New York. I wanted to be able to see the mountains and the forest, be around the people.

I am proud to be a daughter of the mountains.

It doesn't bother me to be called a 'hillbilly' because I lived in the hills. I grew up in the hills and the mountains are my home.

I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.

Anyone can look to someone like Ruby Bridges and be inspired. We wanted to emphasize that this really is all of our history and that Black history shouldn't just be segmented into one month and we just move on. This is a huge part of the fabric of our country.

I want to clear this once and for all. I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up in Japan and China. London is not home for me. I was there only for three years before I moved to India, but that's probably why I am connected with it. London is definitely not the place I consider my home. It's India that I consider home.

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

I got family in the U.K. on my dad's side of the family. My grandfather's brother moved to the U.K. from Jamaica. It's a pretty big family I'll have there.

My parents moved to San Francisco from India when I was a year old.

Both my parents moved here from Argentina before I was born, so they were in a foreign country.

We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

My father was always saying we were Serbs, but I didn't pay much attention.

I grew up in a house made out of mud.

I come from a multicultural family.

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

Our nation's multiculturalism is what makes us so special as a nation.