Quotes About Heritage

When a time came to carve her name, would it be Dawnged, girl of Ystrad, T´ywi or Tâl, payment to Elen, or would she one day find her true name?

She looked nothing like that young wife, and nothing like the men with hair on their faces. Her mother's hair, almost, but not her eyes.

This is a craftsman cabin, built for my great-grandfather by masters, not one of the more usual settler's shacks made from whatever came to hand and which have long since rotted away, and good riddance." His smile was real this time. "You always have been a snob, Torvingen." "I like well-made things.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

Sensuality is a cultural legacy of the ancient world. Societies where the Greco-Roman legacy is being wiped out, or where it does not exist, only know sentimentalism and sexuality.

The gesture, rather than the word, is the true transmitter of traditions.

Civilization is not an endless succession of inventions and discoveries, but the task of ensuring that certain things last.

The racist errs by believing that pure races exist, the anti-racist by believing that the ingredients of a beverage are of no importance.

La violencia no basta para destruir una civilización. Cada civilización muere de la indiferencia ante los valores peculiares que la fundan.

Wie eine Tradition aufrecht erhalten? Indem man nicht von ihr spricht.

Religion did not arise out of the need to assure social solidarity, nor were cathedrals built to encourage tourism.

Der Wille eines Volkes, seine genetische Zusammensetzung "rein" zu erhalten, kann eine Anmaßung sein, doch es ist keine Dummheit; denn gibt es auch keine reinen Rassen, so gibt es doch gelungene Mischungen.

Everything that interrupts a tradition obliges us to start over. And every origin is bloody .

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

History choked me History took hold of my throat

My mother dyed my hair red since I was four because I loved Anne of Green Gables and wanted red hair. Not many people know this but my natural hair color is light strawberry blonde. Got my hair from my grandmother's side of the family.

our individual differences are a product of our environment or the result of genetic inheritance.

It is an inescapable fact that the Great British Pudding is made of flour and water. In other words, our sweet culinary heritage is based on little more than glue. Sure, our puddings are sweetened with jam, or currants, or treacle, or syrup, or honey, or chocolate, or apples, but at their heart and soul is glue – something that cannot be said for a French crème brulée or an Italian tiramisu, or even a New York cheesecake.

However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

Black love is black wealth

MY BLACK ME My father fed me Invisible Man, Native Son, No Longer at Ease, Black Man's Burden, and the more I read, the madder I got, and I already had reason to scream, but my father kept me dreaming of what words I might bring to the world.

Daughter of a Sikh father and a Hungarian mother, Amrita Sher-Gil in her short life (1913–41) transformed the course of Indian art. In her oft-quoted words: 'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse and Braque and many others. India belongs only to me.

Russia! Russia! What is the incomprehensible, mysterious force that draws me to you? Why does your mournful song, carried along your whole length and breadth from sea to sea, each and re-echo incessantly in my ears? What is there in that song? What is it that calls, and sobs, and clutches at my heart? What are those sounds that caress me so poignantly, that go straight to my soul and twine about my heart? Russia! What do you want from me? What is that mysterious, hidden bond between us?