Quotes About Heritage

Have you ever noticed," Rosalie asks, "that the coloreds are always singing of the coming glory and the Irish are always singing of the glory lost?

Aliit ori'shya tal'din. Family is more than bloodline. —Mandalorian proverb

you cannot fight a man's history.

Your mother asked about his family, because we are southern and asking about someone's family is the only way we can distinguish the chaff from the wheat.

Then again, he was born in the South, where babies drank Scripture with their mother's milk. "I

The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.

Nevertheless, for weal or for woe, there is no such thing extant as Anglo-Saxon—of all nations, said to be Anglo-Saxon, in the United States least. What we still have from England, much as appearances may seem to point the other way, is not of our bone-and-marrow, so to speak, but rather partakes of the nature of importations. We are no more English on account of them than we are Chinese because we all drink tea.

People say Americans like coming to England to see the old stuff 'cos they haven't got any old things in their own country, but they would if they stopped crushing it or blowing shit up.

There's too much history in York, the past is so crowded that sometimes it feels as if there's no room for the living.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.

A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.