Quotes About Heritage

The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

The person of creatures is living, the purpose of living is service, a service that implants legacy.

My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.

We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

What task could be more agreeable than to tell of the benefits conferred on us by our ancestors, so that you may get to know the achievements of those from whom you have received both the basis of your beliefs, and the inspiration to conduct your life properly?

Hermanados por la tradición y por la lengua, tal vez no esté muy lejos el día en que se cumpla el todavía improbable sueño de una unidad de naciones de nuestra América

No legacy is so rich as honestly.

Service is no heritage.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom.

If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;I had it from my father.

The son and heir of a mongrel bitch.

For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase.

Where'er I wander, boast of this I can,Though banish'd, yet a true-born Englishman.

I am all the daughters of my father's house,And all the brothers too.

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase...

I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.

both of us were raised in lower-middle-class Orthodox Jewish immigrant families

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Horace Pendergast, originally from Cairo, Illinois.