Quotes About Heritage

Jesus.""I thought you were Jewish."He pressed his lips together for a second before looking at me. "Fine. I'll say Moses. Or Abraham. Happy?""I doubt Jesus is.

I'm not really a Jew just Jew-ish not the whole hog.

Who doesn't respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you'd best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

I have great respect for the past.

I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic.

Aye, wumman, if it's truly romantic, then it must be Scottish.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.

posit by W. B. Yeats: "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

When a people does not honour its past, it lives in a present of little substance and faces a future clouded in doubt.

Our masters say that real arts never die. Real arts are about remembrance.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

Recognizing that the reasoning individual is far more likely to be carried away by some worthless passing fashion than he is to discover a new and valuable truth, they prefer to uphold ideas and behaviors that have been tested for generations and have stood their ground. And where they introduce alterations, they do so according to the method of constructive reasoning.

Let my seed mingle with the seed of Cain, that brings the curse upon me, and upon my generations -- we will reap the same rewards with Cain.

Again, Saburo Tominaga once went to the Shirakawa Prefectural Office to cash his brother Morikuni's bonus bond and, unwilling to touch paper currency defiled with a foreign-style design, carried it home between chopsticks.

The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.

The feminine genes that made it to the next generation belonged to women who were submissive caretakers. Women who spent to much time fighting for power did not leave any of those powerful genes for future generations.

Today most of us speak, think and dream in imperial languages that were forced upon our ancestors by the sword.