Quotes About Heritage

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

To be a Jew is a destiny

Blood is not destiny.

A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity.

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.

There is a certain dignity to being French.

Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

Work hard and follow your dreams, but never forget where you came from.

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.

Europe has such an expansive history.

I love where I'm from. I love the landscape because it is so beautiful, and I also love the people of my community, the people whose stories I'm trying to tell.

My first language is Gaelic.

India is a conglomeration of different states with various languages, tradition, and culture for each.

I've seen after-school clubs where parents, teachers and children have got together to write books. They were in a mix of languages; the books told stories of what the parents got up to when they were children and how they arrived in the area, whether it was from another country or from the other side of town.

I was born in Sri Lanka.

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

Being African didn't mean anything to me until later in my life.