Quotes About Heritage

Originality must compound with inheritance.

She looked down at her hands. "He said I couldn't marry you. Not only because of that but because you're—you're half Indian!" "An' just

To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.

But it is a historical fact that the Jews, and no one else, gave the world the Bible. It is a historical fact that the Jews introduced to the pagan world the idea of a God who demanded righteousness......Even most of the books of the New Testament were written by Jews.

Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

They will raise, and raise with them their mother's side.

They will rise, and raise with them their mother's side

To know yourself is to know where you're from

children are the carriers of whatever has been left unresolved from the generations that went before.

Life after death means for us that part of our life that lives on in our children, in the influence that survives us after death, and the memories people have of us.

You know, we have a saying that other people boast of the beauty of their women; we boast of our old men.

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

I'm just a politician from Missouri and proud of it.

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

English arrived, they bastardized the name to Key West.

A century ago, survival was the main event. Longing was an accepted part of existence. Today, the inability to achieve happiness or fit in with the herd is treated as a kind of moral failure.

The Franklin didn't only belong to Tasmanians. Nor our forests. They belonged to the world. We were custodians.

Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.

the Feast of San Gennaro on Mulberry Street, one of the city's big ethnic festivals.

L'idée de ma survie dans ma postérité ne me touche pas beaucoup. L'avenir, cette énigme irritante, m'ennuie. Mais choisir son passé, se laisser flotter dans le temps révolu comme on remonte la vague, toucher au fond de soi le secret de ceux qui nous ont engendré: voilà qui permet de rêver, qui laisse le passage à une autre vie, à un flux rafraîchissant.