Quotes About Heritage

My values stemmed from the family. Anything I have achieved in life has been rooted in my upbringing.

I have a great identification with Judaism as a religion and as a culture, and all the values that created such a great history, and the Jewish contribution to the betterment of all humanity.

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

Our forefathers paved the way for us. Let's take their values and their strengths and rededicate ourselves to doing whatever it takes to keep America the greatest country in the history of man.

My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

We must continue to ensure that the legacy of the Greatest Generation is preserved and protected so that all Americans can work to embody the ideals and values of those that came before them.

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.

We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud.

WHAT CAN ARCHAEOLOGY can tell us

New Guinea, though it accounts for only a small fraction of the world's land area, encompasses a disproportionate fraction of its human diversity. Of the modern world's 6,000 languages, 1,000 are confined to New Guinea.

human genetic diversity is highest in Africa; perhaps more-diverse humans would collectively produce more-diverse inventions.

Our modern acorn squashes and summer squashes are derived from those American squashes domesticated thousands of years ago.

A Maori conqueror explained, "We took possession…in accordance with our customs and we caught all the people.

It turns out that, in addition to China's eight 'big' languages—Mandarin and its seven close relatives (often referred to collectively simply as 'Chinese'), with between 11 million and 800 million speakers each—China also has over 130 'little' languages, many of them with just a few thousand speakers.

We have a bubbling successful melting pot in this country so long as the ingredients are essentially European.

Their heritage of instability, extravagant caprice, and natural elegance was their paternal portion.

legends, which in the etymological sense are what one should pass on, are only the symbols of a tradional truth transported from one generation to the next.

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

Donde naces — en lo que naces, el lugar, la historia del lugar, cómo esa historia se imbrica con la tuya— deja una impronta en quién eres, por mucho que digan los expertos en globalización.

Perhaps I wasn't a child of God at all, but the daughter of a Frenchman.

I know nothing of my biological parents. They live on a lost continent of DNA. Like Atlantis, all record of them is sunk. They are guesswork, speculation, mythology. The only proof I have of them is myself, and what proof is that, so many times written over? Written on the body is a secret code, only visible in certain lights. I do not know my time of birth. I am not entirely sure of the date. Having brought no world with me, I made one.

because if you are raised on the Bible, you don't just walk away, whatever anybody says.

If you went back far enough, Uncle Tinsley went on, just about