Quotes About Heritage

Portuguese cake-making

There is not a simple gene pool entirely free of toxic waste.

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

I am my own heir.

Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went

I have stood upon Achilles' tomb and heard Troy doubted, Time will doubt of Rome

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

Cherokee's American, Ned. It don't get more American than that.

Jeffs Bagel Run bagels taste like the definition of what a bagel meant to me growing up."

It's one of those ultramodern, "architecturally designed" affairs—all windows, some concrete and metal. It rises like an angular, shimmering phoenix from the ruins of what was probably once a characterful home—something unique but not quite old enough to claim protective heritage status.

As she held her new baby in her arms, it had hit hard—it was the first time in her life she was looking at family who looked like her. And it made her think that there were more people out there of her blood. Her curiosity grew intense.

Do you remember little Zoe Octavia Lexham?' he said. His aunt cast her pale blue gaze in the direction of the great chandelier, as though that was where she kept her memory. 'Zoe Octavia,' she said.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

For many tourists, a trip to Pennsylvania includes a visit to the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch country. That's an area in the southeastern part of the state where some Mennonite and Amish groups (among others) make their homes. One theory is that the term "Dutch" came about because many of the people are of German descent, and the word Deutsch was mispronounced as Dutch.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

We are the link to the past, the anchor to the present, and the bridge to the future."28

Polka will never die.

You couldn't guess at a breed to look at him, but at least one of his parents must have been a wooly mammoth.

It's a tradition," Grimm said. "Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures.

When the enemies of Spire Albion were in the walls, the great-great granddaughter of old Admiral Tagwynn had refused to have a good lie-down, and it was as simple and as profound as that.

Neighbor to neighbor. It is a mentality that has been fostered over centuries, since the earliest settlers realized the only way to survive in this desolate but beautiful outpost was to work together. Much of their music captures this spirit.

I find it impossible not to believe that there's something in Irish blood that favors their power with words.

A real Irishman will give everything of himself--except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.

I was born Katie O'Reilly," she began. "Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels." Titanic Rhapsody