Quotes About Heritage

Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's experience in history.

Hay algunos que aman su historia y el color de su piel, y hay otros que odian su historia y el color de su piel...

To begin you must be traced into the landscape, your people and your place found. Until they are you are in the wrong story.

Ganga told me Naughton's grandfather had operated a poteen still out of the Fairy Fort there. By way of both respect and payment of rent he always let the fairies have the first glass.

Grandmother's English heritage meant that she had that Empire voice, that come-out-of-your-grass-huts-and-give-us-your-treasures-for-our-museums kind of voice. The woman could boom. It was seriously terrifying. Even years later when my father imitated her and she seemed part Margaret Thatcher and part horse Aeney and I were still frightened.

Noi siamo la nostra storia, la raccontiamo per rimanere vivi o mantenere in vita quelli che raccontiamo

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

However far you run from your family and try to expunge them from your life, they follow you.

The transmission of knoledge from generation to generation is one of the miracles of civilization.

The view from the duke's office has changed very little in the past 200 years.

He was commander-in-chief because his father was king.

After Napoleon would come his son, if he had one, or his brother's son if he did not.

It had belonged to Charlemagne in its time

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

The leading planter families of the Delta consider themselves to be members of the Southern upper class—which is to say that they are Episcopalian, of British or Scotch-Irish extraction, and had ancestors living in the upper South before 1800—

Inheritance is as integral to sonship as sacred space is to the priestly office.

God, I pray that my family will continue on in the faith. Give my children ears to hear and the memory to recall their legacy in future years. Remind us to pray often for family members and for our descendants, just as some of our ancestors surely prayed for us. Create from us, O Lord, a family legacy that will honor you for generations to come.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

My mother's soul was still Norwegian in a way that mine was not.

She imagined Begu's mother, Enynny and Ennynny's mother, and her mother before her, back into memory, sitting here by the ferns drinking the cold, minty water, and talking quietly in British. So many. All gone into the mist. She felt a twist inside, a longing for a family and home that never was.

Sometimes people have to do new things, things that have never been done before. Everything your foremothers did was new once.

All the things that make you you, your clarity and solidity and certainty, come from this. You can actually reach out and touch your past. It's in the wood, in the cold, clear water of the fjord and the hard rock of the mountain. And the wood and the fjord and the mountain are in you, clear and strong and massive." She looked at me then, reached out to trace the line of my cheekbone, my nose, my jaw. "Aud, Aud, Aud.

Mother and daughter considered each other. Different hair, different eyes, different hearts. Both tall enough that people whispered of etin blood. Both with bright, pattern-making minds.