Quotes About Heritage

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

Happy is the nation without a history.

Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world.

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.