Quotes About Heritage

Most of us have moved away. Sure, we take the checks because it's our land, but the casino has destroyed the soul of our people. I know nothing about it. I despise the place and the people who run it.

There are 562 recognized tribes in the U.S., but only about 200 operate casinos. There are approximately 150 additional tribes seeking recognition, but the Feds have grown suspicious. New tribes face an uphill battle getting recognized. Many critics claim their sudden pride in their heritage is driven solely by the desire to get into the casino business. Most Indians do not share in these riches and many still live in poverty.

was the beginning of the Tudor claim to an "Anglo-British

the founder of the Tudor dynasty, could be the rightful king of England too.

the queen my good sister coming of the brother, and I of the sister.

We be both of one blood, of one country and in one island.

Her mother had amassed twelve sets of tapestries, one on the theme of the Twelve Labors of Hercules

Mary's tapestries were the glory of her collection. She had some twenty complete sets

Many highlanders spoke Gaelic rather than Lowland Scots, exacerbating cultural differences.

The politics of Scotland were tribal: blood ties and kin culture were predominant

shall continue to be called the kingdom of Scotland and retain its ancient laws and liberties.

To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.

Quite understandably, as a Jew, Noah felt that German was the language of his people's executioners and he refused to learn a word of it.)

No, sir. But even if they are, I'm inclined to go with them." "For God's sake, man—why?" The foreman peered at Cooper as if he were callow, not very bright. "South Carolina is my home. Those men speak up for it. No one else does, Mr. Main.

The war's military organization was an innocently conceived social society founded by a group, of bored veterans around Christmas 1865. In a law office in Pulaski, Tennessee, the veterans had created a secret fraternity called the Kuklos, after the Greek word for circle. Someone had added clan to reflect the area's Scotch-Irish heritage, and the whole thing had been transmuted

Why should I care about posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?           attributed to GROUCHO MARX, but also credited to various eighteenth-century English figures

What is your opinion of a society that considers Turkey in the Straw to be one of the pillars, as it were, of its culture?

All blue-eyed people are mutants. The first ones appeared as recently as 5,000 years ago.

everyone alive on the planet today is related both to Confucius (551–479 BC) and to Nefertiti (1370–1330 BC). So

Where does Chicken Tikka Masala come from? Glasgow.

I never felt Irish. I always felt, 'I'm English, this is where I come from, and that's that.' Because you'd be reminded of that when you went to Ireland: 'Ye're not Oirish!' the locals would say. So it was like, 'Bloody hell, shot by both sides here.' I still love that Magazine song – so relevant to me, those lyrics.

In a world where so much of our natural heritage is being lost, why not celebrate the few bright spots where it is surviving and adapting?

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.