Heritage Quotes

"We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music."

"My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden."

"My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian."

"The sphinx will always have to be looked after."

"Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time."

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."

Alex Haley

"If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India."

Romain Rolland

"This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection."

"The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed."

Thomas Moore

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."

Marcus Garvey

"Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

Gustav Mahler

"Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for... because it's the only thing that lasts."

Margaret Mitchell

"Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men."

Homer

“I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.”

"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from."

Carl Sandburg

"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition."

Mark Twain

“Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.”

“As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.”

“As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home.”

“If I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb.”

“We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage.”

“We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men. We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.”

“Even if I am French, I have African roots. Helping African sport to develop is something that is very important to me. If I can use my reputation or other means to help, then I will.”