Quotes About Heritage

The legacy thing is very overrated.

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

I realized how lucky I was to have been raised here in these southern woods among poachers and storytellers.

I love Italy. For hundreds of years, if not centuries, the people of italy (Italians) have been living here." [Audrey's insight]

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

But now there are no natives – or we're the natives.

Chief Bo as the center, dressed, in 2005, in bright red feathers, with beadwork that should be in a museum and probably will be someday

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion.

What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.

We're Indian! We have a right to conduct our own religious ceremonies, just like everyone else!

All native languages are in danger of dying in Canada. We must each do our part in any way we can to preserve these languages. Cree is my native tongue, the first language I spoke when I came into this earth, so I feel it's my responsibility to do whatever I can to help preserve it.

Language preservation is like saving the birds. We don't want birds to go extinct. Imagine Canada without the sound of a loon. It's a classic Canadian sound. Canada would lose part of its soul if loons went extinct. It's the same thing with languages. Native languages, in this country, or in any country, are part of its sonic environment. It's part of our connection with the earth. We must each do our part in any way we can to preserve these languages.

Maybe Ã¢â'¬Â¦ an old story passed down on Mai's maternal side huddled together in the internment camps of '42, keeping themselves alive with the stories. But keeping separate even then, even there, the threads of the Japanese, Chinese, Filipino elders. Stories keeping the people in the camps alive while the bill in Congress to sterilize the women of the camps got voted down by one vote, one vote. And then the silence. A whole generation silent

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

You're not playing the game,' Mary Landon said. 'I told you about me. You're just telling me about your family.' The statement surprised Chee. One defined himself by his family. How else? And then it occurred to him that white people didn't. They identified themselves by what they had done as individuals.

Someone had been digging. Someone had been looting. A pot hunter. A Thief of Time.

Ernesto Cata was dead but the Little Fire God lived. The Badger Clan had provided another of its sons to personify this eternal spirit.

That made him and Highhawk related on their less important paternal side.

country bumps into the Jicarilla Apache

an unknown and forgotten treasure of the earliest Christians, a manual for living used by the generation of Jesus followers immediately after the apostles.

Finding a homeland is not the same as dwelling in the place where our ancestors once used to live."   —KRZYSZTOF CZYZEWSKI