Quotes About Heritage

I thought you were Mexican." "If you're Mexican, you're part Indian. And part Spaniard. Part eagle. Dog. Snake. Parts from whatever no one else wants." Coyote

I'm adhering to the core of 2000 years of gastronomic history.

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

Cada uno ES de un solo sitio en la tierra y allí debe pagar su cuota. Yo soy de aquí.

I can't help thinking: Am I related in some traceable way to all redheads, if there were any such genetic thing as "all redheads"?

What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was comforted by a piece of poetry given to her by a friend: They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind: In those whom they have blessed they live a life again.2

Mom was a flower of the south

Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown all began as Christian institutions

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

valuing human experience, tradition, and custom.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."6

Hence the American heritage and founding principles must be thrust aside if there is to be human progress. They are dismissed as outmoded and obstructive, impeding the pursuit of utopian ends, for they are unconnected to the present. Man,

Who knows what somber ancestor had passed on to me this talent, this precocious ear for loss? For a while, because of it, I misheard almost everything.

the world. They died in the 1980s.

There is no architecture in New Orleans, except in the cemeteries.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

I've got a bit of Scottish Blood... On my kitchen knife!!

Incredible to think isn't it, that every single Scotsman, started off as a scotch egg. Old and gingery.

As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'