Quotes About Heritage

We could recite passages from Shakespeare and legends about African kingdoms going back thousands of years. We could share facts about the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the largest forced migration of a people in the history of humankind, and about the great military strategist Queen Nzingah, who defended the nation of Angola against Portuguese invaders in a powerful effort to destroy the slave trade entirely.

How could anyone mistake Mom for white? Mom was a proud black woman, the proudest I knew. She hated us having to take welfare food, hated accepting anything we needed but did not earn. We had a picture of Marcus Garvey on the living-room wall, talking about going back to Africa, talking about the power of blackness and the strength of the Negro heart. I couldn't imagine looking at Mom and not seeing that.

Papa, who instructed us to always hold our heads up, who promised us we were worthy, who assured us we were descended from kings—and from architects and farmers and healers and visionaries—no matter what all the hateful people in the world had to say about us.

TRADITIONS REASSURE US THAT WE BELONG TOGETHER

Ritterlichkeit ist eine Blume, die auf dem Boden Japans nicht weniger heimisch ist als ihr Symbol, die Kirschblüte. Sie ist kein vertrocknetes Blatt einer uralten Tugend, die im Herbarium unserer Geschichte verwahrt wird, sondern ein lebendiges Etwas von Schönheit und Macht, das unter uns weilt.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. " ?Michael Crichton

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.

Because they saw themselves as intellectuals rather than refugees, they were concerned less about preserving their Chinese heritage than with casting their lot with modern America, and eventual American citizenship. It is in connection with these immigrants, not surprisingly, that the term "model minority" first appeared. The term refers to an image of the Chinese as working hard, asking for little, and never complaining. It is a term that many Chinese now have mixed feelings about.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

If you're enough lucky to be Irish, you're lucky enough!

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

God bless America, Land that I love, Stand beside her and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains to the prairies, To the oceans white with foam, God bless America, My home sweet home.

God bless America,Land that I love.

From the mountains to the prairies,To the oceans white with foam,God bless America,My home sweet home!

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

Write what should not be forgotten.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.

Il nazionalismo non è la consapevolezza della realtà del carattere nazionale, né l'esserne fieri: significa credere nella missione unica della propria nazione, ritenuta intrinsecamente superiore agli scopi o atttibuti di tutto ciò che è fuori di essa.

But what have Cortes and Pizarro or the others to do with me? You carry them in your blood as I carry the blood of Montezume; expeditions of them are harbored by your heart and your mind carries their supply trains. You've changed your helmet for a frontier hat while I have changed my robes for overalls and a black leather jacket. The costumes may have changed but the blood is still the same, gringo.