Willa Cather Quotes

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

You can tell the history of people on a plate.

History has always fascinated me. Coming from a family that has it's own regal history, I always like places that have a rich past.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

I really don’t make history; I preserve it.

… history is that which transforms documents into monuments

Art is the permanence of a civilization.

We are reminded here of our past, of the continuity of our national story, and the virtues of resilience, ingenuity, and tolerance which created it…

Tradition wears a snowy beard.

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

I like places that have history in the sense of - you feel responsible to it.

For me, clothing has always been connected to history. That's what draws me in.

One should live with history round one.

History matters.

People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep cultural roots to hold on, we got swept away by fast, cheap and easy.