Quotes About Heritage

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

The foundation of the Germanic system was blood and kin.

St Patrick was a Roman Briton of good family dwelling probably in the Severn valley.

Môr o gân yw Cymru i gyd. [All Wales is a sea of song.]

ten or twelve men, especially between brothers and between fathers and sons; but the offspring of these unions are counted as the children of the man with whom a particular woman cohabited first.

I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out

Homeland is not a blot on a map but the living essence of man

Gdy w domu sÄ…siadów pokazujÄ… wam z nabo?eÅ"stwem sygnet prapradziadka, wolno pomyÅ›le?, ?e tera?niejszo?? tej rodziny musi by? pod zdechÅ'ym Azorem, skoro przeszÅ'o?? tak jej imponuje.

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

When she grew up, no drinking her orange juice or chocolate milk out of glasses that were once Yahrzeit candles.

education has always meant the initiation of the young into the social and spiritual inheritance of the community: in other words, education has meant the transmission of culture.

Urique. As a mining village whose best days

Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Y como todo lo demás que amamos en esta vida -todo aquello que, sentimentalmente, llamamos nuestras "pasiones" y "deseos"-, es realmente una necesidad ancestral codificada. Todos nacimos para correr; todos nacimos porque podemos correr. Todos somos La Gente que Corre, como siempre han sabido los tarahumaras.

Anything the Tarahumara eat, you can get very easily," Tony told me. "It's mostly pinto beans, squash, chili peppers, wild greens, pinole, and lots of chia. And pinole isn't as hard to get as you think." Nativeseeds.org sells it online, along with heritage seeds in case you want to grow your own corn and whiz up some homemade pinole in a coffee grinder.

He was born Michael Randall Hickman,

if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you.

Most national identities rest in part on a series of shared pseudohistorical myths.

The story did not end at the tree. For you and your people, that is where the story begins.

The Diaspora simply cannot be understood without the back-ground of Deuteronomy.

With the blood of a scoundrel and a princess in his veins, his defiance will shake the stars.

And so... a year later... I am back where I started. Contemplating a forced marriage between us.' She looked up at Micah, blinking away tears. "Turning my back on my clan heritage." Micah had the grace to look uncomfortable. 'I wish it were otherwise. I wish that you loved me.

It's an odds-on favorite that if one laid enough Mormon genealogy charts end to end, one could prove either that all these fine families are related or that at least they've all laid each other end to end.