Quotes About Heritage

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.

My father was a bullfighter.

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.

Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.

If the father is not straight naider will be the son.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam.

Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin.

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

It isn't how many years one spends on earth that matters, but the legacy left from your many years.

Always remember where you came from and who you were but live each day for what you became and who you are!

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

NEVER forget where you came from it might save you from where you could end up.

Family is not just a word. It's who you are, where you came from and where you will always belong.

the original of the copy they have in the Louvre.

No doubt these geographical regions and the historic past that injected forest glades and Gothic steeples into their names had to a certain extent shaped their faces, their minds, and their prejudices, but had survived in them only as does the cause in the effect—that is, as something that can be unearthed by the intelligence but in no way perceived by the imagination.

Cathedrals are to be adored until the day when, to preserve them, it would be necessary to deny the truths which they teach.