Quotes About Heritage

The fact that Cornish exists at all is just incredible as is the work that people are doing down there, it's such an important part of who people are.

I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.

Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.

When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.

Part of what I'm doing with generations is that I try to express in my work pieces of my growing up years that I can look back on with great fondness - specifically, a sense of family.

Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.

My role is more like a chairman and founder. I am used to overseeing the company's heritage and our strategy.

I learned to play the git-tar from an old colored man in the streets of Montgomery. He was named Tetot, and he played in a colored street band.

Harlem's streets lead backward, into history, straight to a work such as 'This Was Harlem.'

In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed.

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.

I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father's childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s.

It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it's Washington, D.C.

What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now.

I met a Shanghai photographer who finds these old streets and matches the French names to what they are today. I was able to find my grandfather's block, and just walking the same streets and finding his house was deeply moving. I finally felt connected to China.

I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings.

After all, my mother is a Maharashtrian, and I have grown up in Girgaum, amidst a lot of Maharashtrians and I have even danced on the streets during the Ganpati processions.

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.

Being African American and Jewish, I have plenty of ancestors and family members that I can look to for strength and, more importantly, for a grateful outlook on life.

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

My father, who is deeply spiritual and religious, always stressed that my siblings and I remain true to our Indian roots.

There's so many strict ideas and rules, whether it's from religion or it's just generations and generations.

Our actions, behavior, speech and for that matter anything that we do should strictly comply with our culture.

If I go anywhere where there are people who vaguely look like me, there is always that feeling of, 'Actually I do look quite similar to everyone else.' At moments like that, I become very, very British. My accent gets more clipped, and I stride around as if I've got an empire.