Quotes About Heritage

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

Zanzibar Chest,

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

When Australians talk of the men who saved Australia in 1942–43, of that time in their history when they also had to stand alone and help themselves, who fought not for the birth of a nation, but for its very rites of passage,

I feel Australian. He feels Czechoslovakian. I am completely home here. I give them [Australia] my children, we do good, we work all our lives, we give Australia a lot. Libuse Slehofer

An Italian migrant once told me that … and he said, 'To be a migrant is both a curse and a blessing, because you will always hang between two countries.' This is a very good country, I quite enjoy it, it's fine, but I miss my country [Holland]. But I can't go back anymore my country's not my country anymore. Tinie Nieuwenhoven's, Dutch

When you're talking about the culture, maybe there is something that just permeates sort of thing, you know you pass it on or take it in, without ever being aware of it. - Ivan Paveli?, Croatia

They worked hard all their lives, what they basically did was, they built a little Ukraine, a little society for themselves here in Brisbane. They did this in all the cities … not a ghetto, it wasn't inward looking to that extent, but it was inward looking in the sense that it was a place to go—somewhere where you could identify; where you could be understood; go about remembering and preserving your roots. - Walter Sucharsky, 2nd Generation Australian

It took eight generations of cousins marrying to produce you

I can trace her bloodline right back to Arabians on Earth from the mid-nineteenth century. She's as pure as they come. Not an artificial sequence in her whole genome;

If I can get all hot under the collar about the purity of a hat, just think what I'm like when human heritage is threatened with extinction.

Now, let me tell you what's going to happen," Castillito said, righting her chair. "If I don't walk out of here within another two hours, details of your Eliter heritage will be anonymously delivered to Gorlan and your precious Stonal.

our most recent common ancestor—a worm-like creature

With stripes of red, white, and blue, the

Maybe a person can be born to the wrong people," he said. "Maybe a person should have been put somewhere else.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

Roman language, Latin, is the foundation of not just Italian, but also of French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. Latin also left a deep impression on non-Latin languages, such as English. Even after Latin fell out of everyday use, it remained the unifying language of learning, particularly medicine and science.

The author describes the attitude of some on the frontier at Rome's twilight as exhibiting "a kind of London-in-the-blitz determination to carry on being more Roman than usual.

He really your dad? Yes. On my father's side.

inside so as not to offend the ancestors.

Dieu et mon droit».

Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methusael, and Methusael was the father of Lamech.

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and raise livestock.

And his brotherís name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.