Quotes about Heritage

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

To cut ourselves off from the past is to rob ourselves from understanding the present.

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.

Guns in America have an atavistic force. Possessing them, or the act of not possessing them, is an identity that seems to pass from father to son.

A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.

how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother?

Ah!" said the grocer, "I thought I knew his features. He takes after his mother's family; she was a Dodson. He's a fine, straight youth; what's he been brought up to?" "Oh! to turn up his nose at his father's customers, and be a fine gentleman,—not much else, I think.

In 1847, a certain Count Leopold Ferri died at Padua, leaving a library entirely composed of works written by women, in various languages, and this library amounted to nearly 32,000 volumes.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.