Quotes About Heritage

impossible to split language from culture. That without one the other withered. To love the language was to respect the culture.

There was no written record of the earliest chants. They were so old, more than a millenium, that they predated written music.

The Paston Treasure.

The Ouellet Quints.

Cézanne. Riopelle and Lemieux. Kenojuak Ashevak.

hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit.

shutters as old as Herman Melville.

so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.

The Seder nights... tie me with the centuries before me.

Something still exists as long as there's someone still around to remember it.

THEY PUT ME IN CHAINS. Just like that, they shackle my hands in front of me, as if that doesn't send two hundred years of history running through my veins like an electric current. As if I can't feel my great-great-grandmother and her mother standing on an auction block. They put me in chains, and my son—who I've told, every day since he was born, You are more than the color of your skin—my son watches.

Your name, Minka. Short for Wilhelmina. You know what it means? Chosen protection.

Well, as long as someone remembers you, you never really die.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it, right?" Lacy

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled; Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your glory bed, Or to victory.

they couldn't abide the fact that the country was almost certainly founded by the Celts, who were just a little bit too close to the Irish for comfort.

You people in all parts of the world, who have passed away over the ages, you did not live only to fertilize the earth with your ashes, so that at the end of time your descendants could become happy through European culture

Going up to the Alm-Uncle

The only true immortality lies in one's children. [ Letter to his friend, Richard Heuberger ]

I have always been a lover of the sun, even if, through spending a lifetime in Ireland, I have had little personal connection with it.

My mother was Eveline Hartford," said Maude, as if this would mean something to one or the other of us. "So as you know, she simply adored chairs.

I put it to you that no rule consciously invented by mankind since we acquired speech has force equivalent to those inherited from perhaps fifty, perhaps a hundred thousand generations of evolution in the wild state. I further suggest that the chief reason why modern society is in turmoil is that for too long we claimed that our special human talents could exempt us from the heritage written in our genes.