Quotes About Heritage

We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding.

We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity

You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

Our names were made for us in another century.

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.

The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

We, the great mass of the people think only of the love we have for our land, we do love the land where we were brought up. We will never let our hold to this land go, to let it go it will be like throwing away our mother that gave us birth.

The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged...

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved themselves intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others? Robert E

I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I call it: Blackentine's Day.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

Our cultural roots are the most ancient in the world. The spiritual concepts of our Ancestors gave birth to religious thought African people believe in the oneness of the African family through sacred time, which unites the past, the present and the future. Our Ancestors live with us.

Não há futuro sem memória. Por isso os antigos chamaram à Memória a mãe de todas as musas. O espaço cercado das cidades actuais, na sua azáfama diária, no seu trânsito caótico, nos seus eixos projectados para a periferia, parece ter consumido, portas dentro, os próprios ecos do passado recente.