"But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins."

Heritage, Mother, Story, Beginning, Life

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"Noble fathers have noble children."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Heritage, Nobility, Family, Legacy, Honor

"London? Paris? Berlin? Zurich? Maybe Brussels, center of the young union? They all strive to outdo one another culturally, architecturally, politically, fiscally. But Rome, it should be said, has not bothered to join the race for status. Rome doesn't compete. Rome just watches all the fussing and striving, completely unfazed, exuding an air like: 'Hey- do whatever you want, but I'm still Rome. I am inspired by the regal self-assurance of this town, so grounded and rounded, so amused and monumental, knowing that she is held securely in the palm of history. I would like to be Rome when I am an old lady."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Heritage, Cities, Culture, History, Rome

"Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living."

Rudolf Arnheim, German Artist

Heritage, American, Country, Living, Treasure

"Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Heritage, Nobility, Tradition, Family, Responsibility

"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Heritage, Bravery, Tradition, Family, Courage

"Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies."

Bruce Catton, American Historian

Heritage, End, Eyes, Sunset

"Long before all these divisions were opened between home and the road, betweens a woman's place and a man's world, humans followed the crops, the seasons, traveling with their families, our companions, animals, our tents. We built campfires and moved from place to place. This way of traveling is still in our cellular memory. Living things have evolved as travelers, Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Heritage, Travel, Memory, Nature, Family

"We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing."

Amy Leigh Mercree, American Author

Heritage, Ancestry, Healing, Joy, Identity

"For walk where we will, we tread upon some story."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Heritage, History, Footsteps, Memory, Humanity

"Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher " her asabikeshiinh " with its willow-web and invisible 'lady spider' apparently weaving her spells " an object Bea insisted always hung above her in bed."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

Heritage, Tradition, Spiritual, Culture, Symbolism

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"None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as "too late" in life."

Renewal

"If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you have different set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.Your values must be alike. And the biggest of those values... the belief in the importance of your marriage."

Marriage

"Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that's the light."

Heaven

"We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.And facing death changes that?"Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials."

Awareness

"Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can't explain, something that created it all at the end of the search."And no matter how far they try to go the other way " to extend life, play around with the genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty " at some point, life is over. And then what happens? When the life comes to an end?I shrugged."You see?He leaned back. He smiled."When you come to the end, that's where God begins."

Faith

"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."

Sacrifice

".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."

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"Noble fathers have noble children."

"Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living."

"Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one."

"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."

"Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies."

"We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing."

"For walk where we will, we tread upon some story."

"Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher " her asabikeshiinh " with its willow-web and invisible 'lady spider' apparently weaving her spells " an object Bea insisted always hung above her in bed."

Explore more quotes by Mitch Albom

"None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as "too late" in life."

"Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that's the light."

"We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.And facing death changes that?"Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials."

"Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family yo have yet to come to know."

"Life has to end," she said. "Love doesn't."

"Things change when you're not in danger anymore."

"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."

".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."