I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!
Audrey HepburnBooks are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.
Henry David ThoreauTag: education knowledge wealth books-reading enlightenment treasures heritage
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.
Amy TanTag: fear perception women family joy hope language ideas immigration mothers china luck daughters tradition heritage concepts
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Jonathan SwiftTag: politics reason emotions logic assumptions bias heritage conventional-wisdom deathers distortion idolatry-birthers tea-party
People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.
Hugo HamiltonTag: innocence past future growing-up history identity self-discovery growth character maturity personality personal-history heritage predispositions
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
Beatrix PotterTag: influence personality heritage
No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from Alabama, Florida, South Carolina a mile away even if they make no exact reference to location. Their words are lush like the land they come from, filled with nine aunties, people named Bubba. There is something extravagant and wild about what they have to say — snakes on the roof of a car, swamps, a delta, sweat, the smell of sea, buzz of an air conditioner, Coca-Cola — something fertile, with a hidden danger or shame, thick like the humidity, unspoken yet ever-present.
Often when a southerner reads, the members of the class look at each other, and you can hear them thinking, gee, I can't write like that. The power and force of the land is heard in the piece. These southerners know the names of what shrubs hang over what creek, what dogwood flowers bloom what color, what kind of soil is under their feet.
I tease the class, "Pay no mind. It's the southern writing gene. The rest of us have to toil away.
Tag: writing heritage southerners southern-literature
Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran
Patricia BriggsTag: identity choices upbringing heritage
Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.
Valaida FullwoodTag: inspirational photography arts history culture philanthropy heritage
Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.
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