Quotes About Heritage

Canada has, at times, represented itself as a country in a valiant struggle against powerful and menacing agents that are indifferent to its special practices and sensibilities - most especially American culture. It's the old, outdated garrison mentality.

Supporting Rangers, being in an Orange Lodge, that whole life - that's a valid culture.

My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.

All my father's stories were about our mountain, our valley, our jagged little patch of Idaho.

I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.

My house is actually two houses that were deconstructed. They were Connecticut Valley houses built in 1771 and 1781. I took them down piece by piece and reconstructed them about 50 miles to the west on the New York/Connecticut border.

My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.

My father was what you would call a cowboy, a vaquero; he worked out in the ranches with cattle. And my mother came from farmers down in the valley.

My mother's family migrated from Mexico to Colorado and then to the Salinas Valley of California. My father was based there, they met at a USO event and the rest is history.

Everything is in flamenco. Spirituality, loyalty, humility, valor.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

Lots of items that survive from the past are high-status, valuable things that people have treasured.

The Pledge of Allegiance was founded on ideals of religious freedom, and has been a valuable part of our national life for generations.

Horses are the brand value of 'Wertheimer Freres.'

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.

There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America is young and doesn't have that.

The Globe is a missing monument. There's no existing example of a theater from Shakespeare's time. You have Roman theaters, Greek theaters, all kinds of theaters, but none in which the plays of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Marlowe were performed. Scholars feel that it would be of immense value to have one.

My grandmother valued her Southern roots, folk culture, and healing.

I'm a member of a very complex and richly valued race.

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

I am not religious in any way, but I have a pagan ideology and pagan values.

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.