Quotes About Heritage

All the crockery in China had been smashed – flung over the years in all the periodic convulsions for which China was famous. All the blood-stained carpets had been tossed away. All the ancestors' portraits had been destroyed. All the bodies had been buried. It was a country of bare rooms and empty shelves, like this apartment

I speak my language fluently, but my children aren't interested," she said

Claudia Muzzi, of Italian ancestry, had traveled in Italy and indeed spoke Italian. But her most memorable experiences had been in the United States, specifically in Georgia. She planned to write about it later in the week.

It is rare in Mexico to meet someone who has no family connection to the US.

In India, the past refuses to die, undisturbed by new realities.

Everywhere you looked in India there was evidence of a past that had attained mythical heights. From philosophy to architecture, few civilisations have left such an awesome record.

The root of oppression is loss of memory

Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.

Woman you may be, but descended from a knight, or a crusader.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago

if you're not in touch with your roots, you feel as if you've lost touch with the world

Each movement during combat honors the movements that the previous generations tried to transmit through the Tradition.

Guys name their kettlebells like they name their guns. They paint them with their units' coats of arms. They get tattoos of kettlebells. The Russian kettlebell is the Harley-Davidson of weights.

It is the end of a family- when they begin to sell their land. Out of the land we came and into we must go - and if you will hold your land you can live- no one can rob you of land.

He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.

As for their child, I am moved in two ways. He will have his own world to make. Being of neither East nor West purely, he will be rejected of each, for none will understand him. But I think, if he has the strength of both his parents, he will understand both worlds, and so overcome.

And from that time on the boys were no longer called Elder and Younger, but they were given school names by the old teacher, and this old man, after inquiring into the occupation of their father, erected two names for the sons; for the elder, Nung En, and for the second Nung Wen, and the first word of each name signified one whose wealth is from the earth.

Wang Lung, seeing them, was fit to burst with pride at this procession of his goodly sons, who were to continue after him the life of his body;

The SOUL of a NATION is found in its PEOPLE.

after the ancient ondul fashion.

The only argument you can make against having Confederate flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

Classical ballet will never die.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.