Quotes About Heritage

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

I choose Legacy over Lucre

Without our ancestors we would not be.

Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

Remember that I am just a woman who is living a very abundant life. Every step I take forward is on a path paved by strong Indian women before me.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.

Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

Sports cars from the '50s and '60s are my favorites.

I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

What could be more fitting - or more exciting - than to restage Shakespeare's plays on the very spot where they were first performed, in the shape and style of theater for which they were written?

I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out.

The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.

For more than 300 years Qawwali music and Sufism have been deeply anchored in my family's roots and we spread it around to the public.

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.

I want to give Irish kids something to be proud of back home. I want to bring out a stronger image of Ireland instead of 'Irish Spring' and 'Lucky Charms' and all that rubbish.

Tradition matters. To me it's not a limiting force; it's a springboard.