Quotes About Heritage

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

No generation can escape history.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

Our past has gone into history.

History is as Old as My Grandfather

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.