Quotes About Heritage

Catholic and Italian boys whose fathers worked on the docks at the port

I'm grateful that on my father's side I'm descended from a practical Welsh farmer. To that link with the soil I owe whatever measure of physical energy and stability I have.

She's a Boleyn and a Howard,I said frankly.Underneath the great name, we 're all bitches on heat.

With this contradictory parentage of mine: solid English earth and French water goddess, one could expect anything from me. An enchantress or an ordinary girl. There are some who will say I am both.

A single man's imperfect conscience can never be superior to centuries of tradition.

It's as if our name is both our greatest pride and our curse," I say.

You are a son of Melusina," I say, trying to smile. "You sound like her when she had to be free to go into the water.

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.

Another way of indicating the importance of immigration to America is to point out that every American who ever lived, with the exception of one group, was either an immigrant himself or a descendant of immigrants. The

I am Cnaiur urs Skiötha, breaker-of-horses-and-men!, I am Cnaiür urs Skiötha, most violent of all men! I bear your fathers and brothers upon my arms!

For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future.

remaining fair-minded as their beloved gallery-in-the-making was threatened by two crammed shelves of strange Semitic lettering.

What had drawn a non-Jewish woman of her generation to this obscure life as a specialist in Jewish studies?

People have lost their history, the what and how and why of things. They know so little of the places where they live.

Furthermore, his family's connections

When a society erases its past, for whatever reason," she said, "it cannot have a future.

Parents pass their genes vertically to their offspring.

Panthea, the daughter of John Kennedy Ching

The first people settled there along the Santa Cruz River about twelve thousand years

the Gila River Bapchule Indian Reservation, at

The part of me that's me is gone. I'm just part of this line of people. There's no me left. I'm nothing.

You will find that the past is still very much alive down here.