Quotes About Heritage

and his momma never told him who his father was. But she left a clue: posters of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!! Bud's got

My walk through the cemetery was an acquaintance with local history.

If you've got a Mexican last name, you've got a strike against you.

The Bible is the anchor of our liberties

Mauricio viene de Moisés, Isidoro de Isaac, Eduardo de Arón, Jaime de Jacob y Alfonso de Adán…

Musa'ya inanan sevgili kardeslerim, Fransa krali sizi Hiristiyan oomaya zorluyorsa Hristiyan olun, baska turlu yapamazsiniz cunku, ama Musa'nin yasalarini yureklerinizde saklayin: Malinizi mulkunuzu elinizden aliyorlarsa, ogullarinizi tuccar olarak yetistirin ki, yavas yavas onlar da Hristiyanlarin mallarini mulklerini ellerinden alsinlar.

Gustaba a napolitanos y sicilianos, mestizos también ellos, no por error de una madre pelleja sino por historia de generaciones, nacidos de cruces de levantinos desleales, árabes sudorientos y ostrogodos degenerados, que tomaron lo peor de cada uno de sus híbridos antepasados: de los sarracenos, la indolencia; de los suabos, la ferocidad; de los griegos, la infructuosidad y el gusto de perderse en charlas con tal de dividir un pelo en cuatro.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of their history, like an ancestral portrait.

jealousies and hatreds; there was no loyalty or decency anywhere about it, there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar. And worse than there being no decency, there was not even any honesty. The reason for that? Who could say? It must have been old Durham in the beginning; it was a heritage which the self-made merchant had left to his son, along with his millions.

All that men had felt and suffered had been recorded and preserved in musical sound, a heritage for those who had ears to hear and minds to understand.

For two thousand years the Jews had been scattered over the old Continent like thistledown in the wind; and the most carefully tended family trees don't always show what pollen has fallen upon them.

It was the "leisure-class" world, and the people in it were proud of the fact that they had never done and didn't know how to do anything useful. The farther back they could trace an ancestry which had never done it, the more distinguished they were.

Polish, Lithuanian, and German—Dom.

That's why I always say being a Cuban is an incurable disease that you get in your blood, and sometimes it's even contagious.

Anand, look at the back of my hands. No hair. The sign of an advanced race, boy. And look at yours. No hair either. But you never know. With some of your mother's bad blood flowing in your veins you could wake up one morning and find yourself hairy like a monkey

Neither my father nor grandfather could put dates to their stories. Not because they had forgotten or were confused; the past was simply the past.

If you get too attached to your roots in the old sense, you might actually become unrooted, fossilized. At least in form, at least in style, you must get into the new stream, get the new roots. More of India is doing that. Style becomes substance in one generation. Things that one starts to do because other people are doing it – like wearing long pants, in my father's case – become natural for the next generation.

Neither my father nor grandfather could put dates to their stories. Not because they had forgotten or were confused; the past was simply the past. I remember hearing from my grandfather that he had once shipped a boatful of slaves as a cargo of rubber. He couldn't tell me when he had done this. It was just there in his memory, floating around, without date or other association, as an unusual event in an uneventful life.

More than England to the British West Indian or even Holland to the Surinamer, France is the mother country to the Martiniquan.

There may be some part of the world – dead countries, or secure and by-passed ones – where men can cherish the past and think of passing on furniture and china to their heirs. Men can do that perhaps in Sweden or Canada.

When we had come no one could tell me. We were not that kind of people. We simply lived; we did what was expected of us, what we had seen the previous generation do. We never asked why; we never recorded. We felt in our bones that we were a very old people; but we seemed to have no means of gauging the passing of time. Neither my father nor my grandfatehr could put dates to their stories. Not because they had forgotten or were confused; the past was simply the past.

When we had come no one could tell me. We were not that kind of people. We simply lived; we did what was expected of us, what we had seen the previous generation do. We never asked why; we never recorded. We felt in our bones that we were a very old people; but we seemed to have no means of gauging the passing of time. Neither my father nor my grandfather could put dates to their stories. Not because they had forgotten or were confused; the past was simply the past.

Right now, there are far more descendants of the Scottish diaspora scattered around the world than there are living in Scotland.

Edwardian house in Worcester