Quotes About Heritage

It is the concern of every immigrant that their offspring will grow to embrace their adoptive culture at the expense of their natural heritage.

El cuerpo del hombre es la casa donde residen sus antepasados muertos

Bir ?rk?n ruhunu olu?turan bilinç d??? unsurlar, ona mensup tüm bireylerin birbirlerine benzemesini sa?larken farkl?la?malar?na yol açansa e?itimin ve özellikle de istisnai bir kal?t?m?n neticesine olan bilinçli unsurlard?r.

El Torito rescued the meals from the mythologizing amnesia of Southern California and introduced them to areas where customers didn't know how to pronounce the meals they waited for in hour-long lines.

The first generation of immigrants commit themselves to a lifetime of labor, not assimilation—that's the job of the children.

And if your neighborhood still suffers under the tyranny of Taco Bell and combo plates? Fear not -- Mexican food is coming to wow you, to save you from a bland life, as it did for your parents and grandparents and great-grandparents. Again. Like last time -- and the time before that.

In Mexico, we usually go by three names—first name, father's surname, and mother's surname. We shorten that to first and last name in los Estados Unidos.

These weren't the tamales of my youth—they were smaller, but that was okay.

Pocho: An Americanized Mexican.

We must consider the infinite varieties of Mexican food in the United States as part of the Mexican family—not a fraud, not a lesser sibling, but an equal.

The oldest city in the United States is St. Augustine, Florida, founded by Spaniards in 1565,

There are four tongues worthy of the world's use," says the Talmud: "Greek for song, Latin for war, Syriac for lamentation, and Hebrew for ordinary speech.

within two to three generations at least half the world's six thousand or so languages will have disappeared,

For just like the rainforests and the coral reefs, the languages of the world are vanishing. At an estimated death-rate of one language every two weeks, it seems that before this century is out, between half and three-quarters of the world's six thousand or so languages will have disappeared, and among them almost all the languages of small preliterate societies.

word that is not actively used by one generation will not be heard by the next generation and will then be lost forever.

The new anthropology required each culture to be understood on its own terms, as a product of its own evolution rather than as merely an earlier stage in the ascent toward Western civilization.

The conventional predictions are that within two to three generations at least half the world's six thousand or so languages will have disappeared, especially those remote tribal tongues that are really different from what seems natural to us.

Men have need of history because, without it, the past threatens to overwhelm them.

You do not honour them by living as if you, too, have died

We will leave a name.

False. I will always be a Savaric, my lord. Do not deceive yourself. What I was born to may not be taken from me.' She hesitates. 'It may only be added to.

The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.

As the Talmud says, Customs are more powerful than laws.

What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents.