Shared Heritage Quotes

Society is a partnership not only by those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!

The hatred that the Peninsula has inspired in us is greater than the ocean between us. It would be easier to have the two continents meet than to reconcile the spirits of the two countries. The habit of obedience; a community of interest, of understanding, of religion; mutual goodwill; a tender regard for the birthplace and good name of our forefathers; in short, all that gave rise to our hopes, came to us from Spain

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.

Arabs have the right to visit everywhere in the Land of Israel, and Jews have the right to visit every place in the Land of Israel.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.

Inherently in us as Irish people, wherever you are in the world, when you hear an Irish accent, it's like a moth to a flame. There's a real personable pride and camaraderie about being Irish.

Black History Month is fine, but we need more months of the year to celebrate all the people on this earth. After all, we're all creatures of the same God.

We Europeans will always have two fatherlands. One is Europe, and the other is our own country. It is unified in its diversity—this Europe.

Nationality is belief in a common origin and end.

I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.

Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.

Civilization is the common possession of all who will assimilate and apply its principles …. No race or nation can pre-empt civilization any more than they can monopolize the atmosphere which surrounds the earth, or the waters which hold it in their liquid embrace.

There was a place I visited in Lahore that felt to me like old Delhi, and I'm sure Pakistanis who come from Lahore to Delhi feel the same.

There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.

There are very close ties between the Jewish and Mormon people.