Quotes About Heritage

One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)

My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.

I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

We must keep ourselves busy with finding ways to generate wealth for generations to come and work to pass down things to our children for them to pass down to their children.

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.

Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting.

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living.

I work, play and do everything in French.

I can only display what I've been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn't deserve this heritage.

Beauty is my heritage and my core. But my passion is design for the spaces where we live and work.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

Whenever another Latino tells me they're more Mexican than me I stop working and let them do the work for me.

From its first startling image, Orhans Inheritance will seep under your skin and leave an indelible mark upon your heart. What lucky readers we are to inherit Aline Ohanesians gorgeous work.

Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.