Quotes About Heritage

Anyone who expresses anti-Semitic ideas in Poland is like a person who steps on a grave - a despicable act in Polish culture.

I was very sure I did not want to be the stereotype of what Indian people are seen as, which is Bollywood and henna. That's all great! It's what we are, and I love it. I love saris; I love music. I love henna; I love dancing, but that's not all we are.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

We do not call ourselves 'Native American,' because our blood and people were here long before this land was called the Americas. We are older than America can ever be and do not know the borders.

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

As a consequence, very tall parents tend to have tall children, but not as tall (on average) as they are themselves;

It is important to keep old things, he insisted, because it was through them alone that new things could be judged.

I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.

All that was worth handing on died with them; the rest, they put into their books.8

But I have forgotten to tell you how I came into the world, and am telling you my father's story instead of my own. You seem to like hearing about it though, and you can't understand one without the other.

The good old Dominion, the blessed mother of us all.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

The fact of Native existence is that we live modern lives informed by traditional values and contemporary realities and that we wish to live those lives in our terms.

How important is it for us to maintain protected communal homelands? Are our traditions and languages worth the cost of carrying on the fight? Certainly the easier and more expedient option is simply to step away from who we are and who we wish to be, sell what we have for cash and sink into the stewpot of North America.

I think that many non-Natives find it hard to understand why Native people are willing to fight so hard to protect their land. In the case of Gwaii Haanas, all you have to do is stand at the ocean's edge with the cedars at your back and the sky on your shoulders, and you will know.

More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.

History is the stories we tell about the past.

My lands showed like a full moon about me, but now the moon's i'the last quarter, waning, waning; and I am to think that moon was mine. Mine and my father's and my forefathers': generations, generations! Down goes the house of us, down, down it sinks. Now is the name a beggar, begs in me; that name, which hundreds of years has made this shire famous, in me and my posterity runs out.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

And I put it as a question to those, who make a study of mankind, whether REPRESENTATION AND ELECTION is not too great a power for one and the same body of men to possess? When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember, that virtue is not hereditary.

Günümüzde var olan tüm bilimsel bilgi bize ya Eski Yunanl?lardan ya da Eski Yunanca konuÅŸan topluluklardan gelmiÅŸtir. Bu nedenle, baÅŸka uluslar?n Yunanl?lar?n sahip olduÄŸu bilgiyi edinebilmesi için bu uluslardan baz? kiÅŸilerin Yunanca öÄŸrenmesi ve Yunanca bilim ve felsefe kitaplar?n? bu uluslar?n dillerine çevirmesi gerekmiÅŸti.

The women sang the Ohgiwe and danced together as the grandmothers had, for the brave, and the unselfish, for the protectors.