Heritage Quotes

“My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.”

“My mother was very proud of her Indian heritage and taught us, me and my sister Maya, to share in the pride about our culture.”

“My mother would say to us, "I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?" You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”

“Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?”

“My family's lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. I have no doubt that's stood to me and led me down this path.”

"We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune."

Theodore Roosevelt

"History is who we are and why we are the way we are."

David McCullough

"India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages."

Will Durant

"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world."

Carter G. Woodson