Quotes About Heritage

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me. ~ Nostradamus

I really believe that when we start talking ourselves back, we'll have more to offer the world." he [Woodenkinfe] said. "I don't want a gray world." "You mean taking back our cultures and where we come from." "Absolutely! You want to talk about the fabric of this country, that's it." "So rather than a melting pot, it would be a..." "A blanket of color, all sewn in the shape of the U.S.

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

In the West, there have been many pre-twentieth century configurations of the self...Each of these selves are part of the heritage of the West. Each of these selves, all sure that they were the one, proper way of being human, all sure that their way of arranging power relations of gender, race, community and age was the one natural arrangement, all sure that their God was the only true God, are the antecedents of our current self. It is a humbling, disorienting vision.

IN A CLEAR WAY, WE ARE BOUND TO OUR CULTURE. We understand the world because of the way we were taught to see.

Legacies are hard to come by, after all. And if you have one going, you ought to do what you can to keep it alive.

Others such as Baden-Powell and Kipling were concerned that western civilisation would dissolve if its white blood was thinned.

America! half-brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land.

You cannot not know history.

Me and Schopenhauer. Sometimes being German seems to come with some serious disadvantages.

My mother was a very Viennese type of Austrian, Bernie. We're always committing suicide, you know. Its a way of life for us.

To be nobly bornIs now a crime.

In Wales, only about one in five inhabitants can speak Welsh (down from one in

Cattle die, kindred die, we ourselves shall die, but I know one thing that never dies: the reputations of each one dead.

I love history, Tom. All those old things people dig up. Just ordinary things that were once used by ordinary people, but made special by time.

Ni ska bli en del av historien, eftersom historia är allt ni bryr er om.

Culture and sacred order are inseparable... No culture has ever preserved itself where there is not a registration of sacred order.

Doctor Spielvogel, this is my life, my only life, and I'm living it in the middle of a Jewish joke! I am the son in the Jewish joke—only it ain't no joke!

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.

a sense of not belonging is something one inherits.

Je dis : c'est pour cette raison que tu as précisé que tu avais quelque chose d'étranger ? Il dit : oui, les yeux sombres, la peau brune. Et ce sentiment, qui sait, de ne pas être tout à fait à sa place, ici, d'être une sorte de déraciné, comme si on pouvait avoir le déracinement en héritage.

Even the greatest works of art are couched, not in the language of "mankind," but in the language of a specific cultural tradition, and the loss of the tradition is like the loss of the dictionary;

The concept of barroom shoot-outs and duels in the sun have no part in our tradition either, possibly because we have had so few barrooms and so little sun. (It is awkward to reach efficiently for a six-gun while wearing a parka and two pairs of mittens.)