Quotes About Heritage

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

Not all influences of colonialism were necessarily bad. Along with enslavement, subjugation, exploitation, loss of cultural heritage, and repression, colonists also brought modern scientific methods in fields such as medicine and agriculture. Note that this can be no apologia for colonialism, because these advances could have been gained without the societies' becoming colonised, as in Japan.

You could travel mile after empty mile seeing nobody, nothing—just the rugged Meseta—and then happen upon an ancient village of a hundred homes, all conjoined and crowded together, enjambed and encircling a church, a castle, each village with its Franco-era frontón, linked, for better or worse, in prayer, in drink, in song. I

don't know why this little cheese conquered so many," he said softly. "But if you asked me the secret, I'd say it was because we made it in our home, the old way, the way it had been made for hundreds of years. Perhaps in the United States you don't know what it's like to have old flavors, flavors from the past, from centuries before. But we live with them every day here.

Take your hallowed halls of Congress or the littered floor of the Stock Exchange, America is built on its pancake houses!

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

Jullie dragen de genen van de oorspronkelijke tweeling die tien millennia geleden op Danu Talis heeft gevochten. Sophie, jij en je broer zijn de afstammelingen van goden. - Nicolas Flamel

that Isis and Osiris are not their parents

who will tend the farm museums who will dust the day belongings?

I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

If the first chapter seems to talk more about the Bible and Talmud than bupkes and tukhes, it's because the Bible and Talmud are to Yiddish what plantations are to the blues. The only difference is that blues left the plantations behind, while Yiddish—try as it still sometimes does—never escaped from the Talmud. A

Be careful here, my lady. Let history forget your name. For if your deeds are to live in eternity, you will have to become exactly what your family wants you to be." "And what is that?" I demanded. "A slave to the throne.

I heard Nakhtmin's voice in my mind, that to be forgotten was the greatest gift that history could give.

To speak the name of the dead is to make them live again- Egyptian Proverb

I feel Italian, but I also feel French," she said. "Italy is deeper. France is strong, but it's after." Actually, one of the surprises about meeting [Valeria Bruni Tedeschi] is how Italian she seems. Though she has no trace of an Italian accent when speaking French—and says that, in Italian, she shows signs of having lived in France—she sounds Italian when speaking English. There is no suggestion of French at all.

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

Pero la tercera generación es la encargada de hablar por todos, por los vivos y por los enterrados.

A blot in thy scutcheon to all futurity.

Eu, Diogo Ribera Flores, filho do campo e do sequeiro, herdeiro de sobreiros, azinheiras e oliveiras, alentejano por berço e condenação perpétua, deixei mulher e filhos, deixei mãe e irmão, deixei terra e Pátria, deixei esse ar espesso e opressivo de um Portugal amordaçado, para flutuar neste balão gigante sobre o mar e sobre a vida, esperando que no fim da viagem haja um Novo Mundo à minha espera.

The sacred books of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and the Veda are the best repositories of the ideas that mattered most to our ancestors, and to ignore them is an act of childish conceit. But it is equally naive to believe that whatever was written down in the past contains an absolute truth that lasts forever.

Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next?

Las razas desaparecen, los pueblos se levantan y se borran, los imperios se suceden y la gloria huye como una sombra. Pero seguid alzando vuestras murallas blancas sobre la ribera al pie de las montañas rojas...

Det var en uppväxt av brist. Inte en materiell sådan, där hade vi så vi klarade oss, utan en identitetsmässig. Vi var inga. Våra föräldrar var inga. Våra förfäder hade betytt noll och intet för den svenska historien. [...] Vi bröt på finska utan att vara finnar, vi bröt på svenska utan att vara svenskar. Vi var ingenting.