Quotes About Heritage

It is in an old kitchen that the best food is made.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and in its music. Bodies never lie.

Blood is hotter than water.

Blood is stronger than breeding.

All the water in the sea won't wash out our kindred.

An identity long ago observed, or, I may say, never not observed, as if the gardener among his vines is in the presence of his ancestors, or shall I say, the orchardist is a pear raised to the highest power.

It may be said that every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother — that's why the world calls her grandmother.

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

History is but a collection of epitaphs.

And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him.

But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge. And it knew that it was not good to walk abroad in such fearful cold.

The master rode alone that day; and in the woods, side by side, White Fang ran with Collie, as his mother, Kiche, and old One Eye had run long years before in the silent Northland forest.

ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.  And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original Bounty mutineers.  The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft

To him who hears for the first time this weird song, is told the first and greatest secret of the Northland; to him who has heard it often, it is the solemn knell of lost endeavor. It is the plaint of tortured souls, for in it is invested the heritage of the North, the suffering of countless generations—the warning and the requiem to the world's estrays.

Death is the heritage of life; a man's vitality is like air in a bladder. Poinct this bubble and away, away, away, flees life, like the color of fading dream.

Because you are the daughter of your Khan father, you are sent to govern the people of the Oirat tribe.

The white settlers of St. Louis nicknamed their settlement "Mound City" in recognition of the twenty-six Indian mounds they found there, but those mounds have since been cleared away to make room for the modern city.

The greatest legacy of the Mongol Empire bequeathed to the Chinese is the Chinese nation itself.

A valuable possession of a people is its first heroic epic.

You have given us a part in a story the bards will sing to our children's children.

But kin is not the same as family." Raising my hand to his lips, he kissed it. "Rogier Courcel, Duc de Barthelme, is kin to me. You are family.

As William Ferris is fond of saying, "in Africa when an older person dies, a library burns.

There was an acceptance at face value in New York, as if everyone had just been born, with no past heritage to acknowledge or hide.