Quotes About Heritage

Kiev deve ter sido em tempos uma bela cidade. E agora é pouco mais que uma ruína. Não se tratou de combates, mas sim da destruição demencial de todas as instalações culturais que a cidade tinha, e da quase totalidade dos belos edifícios erguidos ao longo de mil anos.

We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours--being born on it, working it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.

Kiev deve ter sido em tempos uma bela cidade... E agora é pouco mais que uma ruína... Não se tratou de combates, mas sim da destruição demencial de todas as instalações culturais que a cidade tinha, e da quase totalidade dos belos edifícios erguidos ao longo de mil ans

Let me tell you, Mr. teacher when you say you'll make me right, in five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white

Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.

You owe some things to the dead even if they're not your own dead. I guess in some way they're all your own.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

Destroy the family, you destroy the country.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.

The beach is in our blood. Everyone in our family returns to the beach instinctively, just like the sea turtles.

I guess getting down on your knees runs in the family

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

My family came from Ecuador.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.