Quotes About Heritage

My own parents and grandparents came to the United States as refugees from Nazism. They came with stories similar to Odette's ...

Back to Germany," one of the cops said, surveying him. "I'm an American," Frank Frink said. "You're a Jew," the cop said.

Our patriotic idiosyncratic ethnic patterns survive because they can be learned by any replacement generation

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

There was always something about our family, and I don't mean color--there was something about us that impeded you. You think like a prisoner. You do, Coleman Brutus. You're white as snow and you think like a slave.

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Do me a favor, my people, and stick your suffering heritage up your suffering ass_ I happen also to be a human being!

Even a monster has to be from somewhere—even a monster needs parents. But parents don't need monsters.

Without an old country link and a strangling church like the Italians, or the Irish, or the Poles, without generations of the American forebears to bind you to American life, or blind you by your loyalties to its deformities, you could read whatever you wanted and write however and whatever you pleased. Alienated? Just another way to say 'set free.' A Jew set free from Jews - yet only by steadily maintaining self-consciousness as a Jew. That was the thrilling paradoxical kicker.

He had seen how improbable it is that we should come from one another and how improbable it is that we do come from one another. Birth, succession, the generations, history—utterly improbable. He had seen that we don't come from one another, that it only appears that we come from one another.

Dottor Spielvogel, questa è la mia vita, la mia unica vita, e la sto vivendo da protagonista di una barzelletta ebraica! Io sono il figlio in una barzelletta ebraica… solo che non è affatto una barzelletta!

Three generations. All of them growing. The working. The saving. The success. Three generations in raptures over America. Three generations of becoming one with a people. And now with the fourth it had all come to nothing. The total vandalization of their world.

the time will come when we are people again, and not just Jews.

It's a hard thing to be a jew... it's a harder thing to stay one.

The stand he wants to open'll sell gyros, he says. He's not Italian after all.

It's said that the only immortality a man can achieve is through his children. I understand that now.)

New York City today still preserves qualities which existed in seventeenth-century New Amsterdam—and Old Amsterdam

Some of these words appear in metropolitan French, but a person of Saintonge who speaks the parlanjhe of the region is uniquely called a goulebenèze, literally, a happy mouth.

Mumbett also had another family of her own. Her great-grandson was W. E. B. Du Bois. In his writings, he remembered her with pride, as an inspiration for his stellar career in American and world history.

We live in a country which is spavined with ancestor- worship. This country will never, can never prosper until it escapes from its past.

Surviving as a people in the face of a society that wanted to dispossess them and deny who they were was their great contest. It is a struggle—a fundamentally colonial one—that has lasted to this very day.

Most of us who are not Wampanoag or American Indian will never fully grasp the raw emotions indigenous people associate with Thanksgiving.

God's past faithfulness and compassion toward us is a heritage upon which we build our faith in the future.