Quotes About Heritage

Grandma-quilts have love in every stitch.

Disrespect for poets is a kind of tradition.

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

As the country so the proverb.

Of course, talking only in proverbs would be impossible. Proverbs are full of poetry and twists. They are made up of words that have been molded for centuries, if not milleniums, until a minimum of words carry an extraordinary potential for meaning.

There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.

Das Blut allein macht lange noch den Vater nicht.

I was a Chinese American, an ethnic minority so small as to be almost invisible. He was an African American who was very conscious that the blood and sweat of his ancestors had made possible the rapid economic development of this country and who had already embarked on the struggle to ensure that his people would be among those deciding its economic and political future.

The Schuylers were one of the few families in those

whatever tongue we speak the old ghost asserts itself in dusky echoes

Yet of course nationalism is always "imagined"; identity is what you think you are.

This is our country, and this is our past, and we are the present, and these young people are the future.

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You are what you leave behind.

Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever.

Every creature born in the flesh carried the genes of an ancestor who had lived through the most savage punishment this would could inflict.

Most of us, even in this digital age, know what a grandfather clock is – but do you know how they got their name? They were once known as long-case clocks, but in 1876 American songwriter Henry Clay Work wrote the song that would give birth to the name that we know them by today: "My Grandfather's Clock".

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself.

Most people in Iceland are either referred to as the son or daughter of their father. For example, a woman with a father named John is Johnsdaughter, or in Icelandic Jonsdottir. A man with a father named John is Johnsson, or Jonsson in Icelandic.

Even the automobiles have an air of antiquity here.

Usté me va a perdonar, pero apenas entiendo lo que dice. A nosotros ya no nos gusta hablar la lengua mexicana.» ¿Cuánto se perdió en el camino para que esa mujer se haya alienado de su idioma y por tanto, de su identidad? Tú la hubieras reprendido. La lengua es el último baluarte de la resistencia.

Asegurabas que los dirigentes indígenas podían gobernar con más eficiencia el país. Habían heredado sabiduría milenaria y dominaban los secretos más recónditos de la tierra donde habían crecido.

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.