Quotes About Heritage

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

Barbara County. My grandparents' maps helped us explore away from

No feeling was better than that of being surrounded by her own. Her children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

It is not that we should disregard the creations of the past, but that we should try to assimilate them into our consciousness. Slavish conformity to traditions and formulas fetters the expression of individuality in architecture.

In her family they used to say that you always had to sit for a minute before heading off on any kind of trip—an old provincial Polish habit—

Clearly I did not inherit whatever gene it is that makes it so that when you linger in a place you start to put down roots.

Keitin teetä. Mustaa teetä. Saakoon nainen tietää, mitä on Tee.

Fryderyk Chopin had always said he wanted to be buried in his native land,

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Could such a many-chambered edifice have stood a century and a half and not have had its passages of romance to bequeath their lingering legends to the after-time?... It was a great happiness to have been born in an old house haunted by such recollections, with harmless ghosts walking its corridors, with fields of waving grass and trees and singing birds...

He comes of the Brahmin caste of New England. This is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy.

Il nous faut remplacer les mourants, et les mourants savent qu'ils ne valent que pour ce qu'ils ont transmis.

Los pueblos que se apoyan sobre tumbas gloriosas son los que mejor se preparan para el porvenir",

Gdyby wszystkie narody miaÅ'y nagle upomnie? siÄ™ o terytoria, gdzie ?yli ich praprzodkowie tysiÄ…ce lat wczeÅ›niej, Å›wiat staÅ'by siÄ™ domem wariatów".

We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.

La lengua, que es siempre y últimamente la lengua materna, no se aprende en Gramáticas y diccionarios, sino en el decir de la Gente

The West is cutting off its Jewish and Christian roots and destroying the entire root system of its culture

The problem with tradition is that it can cause even an error of great magnitude to go unnoticed