Quotes About Heritage

This is the custom among men who have failed to be heroes; their sons must prove that the seed was not impoverished

She called me Tuck, which is what her mother used to call her father. All the male Browners were called Tuck. When the line began to pale, producing a series of aesthetes and incompetents, they gave the name to any man who married into the family, within reason.

We're each an amalgamation of all those in our lineage. - Fergus McCrae

Old books had always filled Brunetti with nostalgia for centuries in which he had not lived.

What fools men are to raze a city, destroying tombs, and temples, and sacred places, when they are so soon to die themselves.

People die, sure," my mother was saying. "But it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

Always remember, the person we're really working for is the person who's restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He's the one we want to impress.

But he knew absolutely everything—work that other people didn't know how to do or care to learn anymore—it hangs by a thread, this trade, generation to generation.

La gente muore, questo è un dato di fatto» diceva la mamma. «Ma il modo in cui perdiamo le cose è insensato e terribile. Per incuria. Incendi, guerre. Il Partenone utilizzato come un magazzino per le munizioni, ma ci pensi? Tutto ciò che sopravvive alla Storia dovrebbe essere considerato un miracolo.»

I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

But it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

From the line of Nathan came Mary the mother of Jesus. From Solomon came Joseph, Mary's husband. The Lord Jesus Christ received the blood line and the legal title to the throne of David through Nathan and Solomon.

Most country people had a deep-rooted disinclination to sleep away from home and a belief that, like as not, to sojourn amongst strangers was to fall among thieves. It was the way they always had lived and, like their forefathers, they travelled no further than a horse or their own legs could carry them there and back in a day.

Two things children shall receive from their parents: roots and wings

Nem lesz hazája senki másnak,Erdély örökre Erdély marad.

I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.

The reason each and every one of us is alive today is the martial prowess and hunting abilities of our ancestors.

But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

In one such painting, Shell Heap, sabal

we have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life--or change the whole world.

Another Grandfather" Every generation tells of how the good world died.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.