Quotes About Heritage

She preferred silence. So I do not know her and yet I know her. She was . . . (He touches the coffin) . . . not a person but a whole kind of person, the ones who crossed the ocean, who brought with us to America the villages of Russia and Lithuania—and how we struggled, and how we fought, for the family, for the Jewish home, so that you would not grow up here, in this strange place, in the melting pot where nothing melted.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

Every artist is born in a place, within a family, and though she may leave those sources far behind, they remain within her.

Here we see that a key purpose of education is a fundamentally conservative--or preservative--one. Education should preserve and transmit the past so that cultural memory is lengthened, and so that descendants will not be left to rediscover human truths already endured and expressed by eloquent forebears.

I nazisti non sono mai riusciti ad inculcarmi l'idea che essere ebreo è un peccato.

When I am with my mother's people, I realize I have a lot to unlearn. I look to them to uncomplicated my notions of Tibet and Tibetans. They know where they are from; they live on the land. This assurance does not come in the same way to those of us in exile who experience a lack of certainty for is it not from the land that we get a sense of stability? Those of us born in exile inherit Tibet by inhabiting the memories of our elders.

As a child I experienced loss for what I felt was withheld from me: the delicious milk, the mountains of flowers I could not roll in, the cousins I could not play with, a beautiful house on a plateau. As the years grew with me, I became aware of absences that impacted me directly and indirectly: the loss of place, of stories, of family and of citizenship.

Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted narratives purged.

I know I have a strong India connect. Is it Subhash Chandra Bose or my father who left my Austrian mother when I was one? - Catherine Khan

It's because you're half NightWing.

Were you raised under a mountain?

His mother taught him how to keep watch and how to fight and how to defend his queen at all costs. His father taught him how to make camel shish kebab and date soufflé.

Wait," Moon said, catching up to him. "What are you saying? That Foeslayer … and Prince Arctic … they had eggs together? A NightWing and an IceWing?

Yes, Sunny," said Thorn, her voice falling like drops of water into the stillness between them. "It's because you're half NightWing.

My mother's name was Palm,

Every HiveWing had at least a few black scales, inherited from their common ancestor, Clearsight,

A people that has had its ancient laws and customs taken from it, whose language and history count for nothing, and whose temples have been sacked and thrown down is apt to be morose

What a wonderful thing to be an American! he said impetuously. Yes, said Dyar automatically, never having given much thought to what it would be like not to be an American. It seemed somehow the natural thing to be.

The spirit of those men of steel, / their gray-eyed wives and daughters

Dad determined when the pork lard was hot enough for frying by dropping a match into it; if the match lit, the lard was hot enough.

Culture can be loosely defined as the body of non-genetic information which people pass from generation to generation.

hit a man in the face long enough and he turns for help to his racial memory and tribal gods.

Even the smoke of our motherland is sweet and pleasant to us.")

this land has relied on masquerade for millennia