Quotes about Heritage

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.

A nation that forgets its past has no future

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Religion is more than a source of conflict or a calculated way to stay out of hell. Religions are treasure chests of stories, songs, rituals, and ways of life that have been handed down for millennia.

Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery.