My Heritage Quotes
Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.
My tongue was handed down to meby datus and katipuneros. The truth ismy mouth is a battlefield thatyou wouldn’t know how to fight in.
How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?
Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.
Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.
Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.
Feature in God’s team of trainees and you will play for the winning team! This is your heritage that you will lay hands on the trophy!
Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . .
You gotta look backwards to go forwards.
Preserve the spirit of a ‘lost’ age, when time moved slower.
It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.
I'll never look at cake the same way again, " he whispered in her ear.
I want to be in the water with you again, nani girl." Her knees went weak and trembles raced down her spine. Beautiful girl had been a special nickname only he used.
His dimples should come with an advisory label: Will cause hearts to flutter and panties to spontaneously combust.
It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.
Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. – Norman Mailer
John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.
A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality
Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.
Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.
Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.
They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.
Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.
Pride is instilled. It's what we carry with us every day of our lives.
Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good admirals.
As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.
If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about their own lives, so that they can establish a relationship to the past.
I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.
There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.
It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.
The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?
countries who have a longer past are better able see further forward into the future and think about extending the time period that they've already been around into the distant future.
Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.
The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.
A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.
