Quotes About Heritage

I smoothed my grandmother's starched white damask cloth over the battered pine harvest table in the dining room, and with my fingertips, traced the tiny patches where she'd so painstakingly mended it. If I looked closely, and I did, I could see the faintest ghost outlines of stains from family dinners long ago.

Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

We ended up in America by default, so it'll never really be our home.

They were proud of their nationality, which had existed nearly as long as from Columbus to our own day. They gloried in their splendid background of great deeds and their long line of heroes reaching back to Rurik.

The German nation is of ancient lineage, and indeed belongs to the royal line of human descent, the Aryan;

Always, in the Bull Court, our most precious trophies were the gifts of the dead.

It's not the impression you make, it's the impression you leave. -A Tennessee woman remembering her Old Southern grandmother

The British Mew-eezum!

Your ancestors are a ladder; upon them climb.

But the point is: history is everywhere. It's about making people realise that. It makes you understand a place.

History isn't something you need to bring to life. History already is alive. We are history. History isn't politicians or kings and queens. History is everyone. It is everything.

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

Who you come from is part of who you are. How do you just let that be stolen from you?

The argument is that Black History Month dwells too much on the downside of white America's relationship to its brothers of African heritage, slavery and torture and the like, and ignores the work of all the good white folk through the years who were nice to black people (did you know it was a white teacher who first suggested George Washington Carver study horticulture?).

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

The Celts certainly have it in a wonderful measure.

The proper question for conservatives: What do you seek to conserve?" George Will wrote in The Conservative Sensibility (2019). "The proper answer is concise but deceptively simple: We seek to conserve the American Founding.

mic.7.18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. mic.7.19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Know thyself; know your strengths and weaknesses; your relation to the universe; your potentialities; your spiritual heritage; your aims and purposes; take stock of thyself. —SOCRATES

We become what we celebrate. It is true not only of the life of a person but also of the life of a family. It is true of the life of a nation, and it is true of the life of the Church.

Everytime we use an invention or read a book or study a science or listen to music, we're enjoying someone else's idea— someone who may have lived thousands of years ago, and thousands of miles away from here.

A house with nothing old in it seems - unseasoned.