Quotes About Heritage

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

History is the zoology of the human race.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.