Quotes about Heritage
I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
— Frederick Douglass
True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.
— Myles Munroe
The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
— Elie Wiesel
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
— Cicero
but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure.
— Jen Sincero
Mama never told me I had a father.
— Emily Bronte
When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
— Malcolm X
I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history.
— DeAndre Yedlin
My grandpa was a preacher.
— Dolly Parton
Ours is a country with diversified culture and centuries-old tradition, which have to be preserved at any cost.
— P. T. Usha
I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.
— Kirsten Dunst
I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
— Erica Jong