Quotes About Heritage

We were not a people who charged into war at the beck and call of bugle or trumpet. No, we fought to the tunes of love songs, for we were the Italians of Asia.

No, we fought to the tunes of love songs, for we were the Italians of Asia.

As for the Vietnamese who stayed in France, French culture had chewed on them since they were in Vietnam. By the time they came to France, they were already, like certain species of cheese, quite soft and easily digestible, qualities inherited by their ideologically pasteurized children.

Ah, the Amerasian, forever caught between worlds and never knowing where he belongs! Imagine if you did not suffer from the confusion you must constantly experience, feeling the constant tug-of-war inside you and over you, between Orient and Occident.

Imagine always having to live with a hyphen dividing you!

So why are we supposed to not forget our culture? Isn't my culture right here since I was born here?

Question to you – who will remember you after you are dead?

The story of barbecue is the story of America: Settlers arrive on great unspoiled continent, discover wondrous riches, set them on fire and eat them.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."

Tribalism is the strongest force at work in the world today.

My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.

We descend from Jove; in ancestral Jove Troy's sons rejoice.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

The expression "Red Man" was used to describe the Indian by the white traders. It came from the fact that some of the Indian tribes painted themselves with red oxide. Actually, the color of Indian skin varies from very light yellow or olive color, to very dark brown. Their eyes vary in color from black, brown, or hazel to gray or even blue; their hair from straight, coarse black to soft brown. Some Indians are tall and straight with high cheek bones, while others are short, round, and squat.

Yet did you know that every dog alive today has a little wolf DNA? Not just huskies, who often look like wolves, but pugs, corgis, poodles? Chuhuahuas - they sometimes act like they still are wolves.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Their children, now grown up and themselves parents, may visit Punjab less frequently. Many have never been to India and declare themselves to be British Sikhs, though experiences of racial discrimination and harassment make them uneasy about their status and future, so some move to what seems a more receptive North America. Events in India since 1984 have reminded them that Punjab is the Sikh homeland.

Let no one be proud of their birth. Know that we are all born from the same clay.

You are a nobleman?" I eyed him and the others listening to us with a heavy sigh. "I am the Viscount of Marsdale. My father is the Earl of Dorshire." All eyes went wide. "Oh, stop, it is a mere accident of birth.

tradition gives the one thing many shapes.

I have nothing but a book, Nothing but that to prove your blood and mine.

Seanchan (pronounced Shanahan), Chief Poet of Ireland.

a culture is no better than its woods