Quotes About Heritage

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.

Syria, Virginia.

The women in his family looked like turtles who'd lost their shells.

A small part of the South not yet gone with the wind.

He ragarded her in surprise. This was a different tune from the one he'd expected to hear, certainly a change from the verse she'd sung when he was a boy. Commitment to ones' name, to one's heritage, to that which the sacrifices of others had made possible -- that was the song he used to hear from Aunt Mary. "Yes, I do," she said, "If I've learned anything by now, it's that some things are too priceless to sacrifice for a name." - Mary and William

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

It is the things that have a history, L. Compared to them we are ghosts.

Massachusetts,

Revolution!" cried Grandmother. "What does that have to do with anything? People still have to live, to marry, and to bear children! Your father thinks things will change. Perhaps they will. But men will always be men, and women will always be women. Some things never change!

Yiddish became the Jews' tongue via the Jewish mother, who, not being male, was denied a Hebrew education.

Long, long before Freud, the Jews had this saying: "When a son gets married, he divorces his mother.

even if you count back only four or five generations, you have an enormous number of living biological relatives descended from those ancestors. This is why it's not very unusual if you are descended from George Washington or another founding father or mother.

At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself.

what a community erects on its historical landscape not only sums up its view of the past but also influences its possible futures.

As a symbol of the new United States, Americans chose the eagle clutching a bundle of arrows. They knew that both the eagle and the arrows were symbols of the Iroquois League. Although one arrow is easily broken, no one can break six (or thirteen) at once.

Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures.

Although each of us comes into the world de novo, we are not really new creatures. We arrive into a social slot, born not only to a family but also a religion, community, and, of course, a nation and a culture.

In the 1920s, Florida and other Southern states passed laws requiring "Securing a Correct History of the U.S., Including a True and Correct History of the Confederacy.

In Cosmides and Tooby's words, "Our modern skulls house a stone age mind."20 They continue: "In many cases, our brains are better at solving the kinds of problems our ancestors faced on the African savannahs than they are at solving the more familiar tasks we face in a college classroom or a modern city.

When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him. ~ Ashanti Proverb

Your relatives, and mine too, are all dead.

In Stockton, Illinois

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.