Quotes About Heritage

Our core identity—the most precious legacy we have been given by the generations who came before us—is the ideals we share, the good we hold in common. If we are losing our national identity, it is not because we are becoming browner or speak in more languages than we once did. It is because we are losing our sense of the common good.

Indeed, why even study history? The brief response is because our understandings of the past—who we are, where we came from, why we are here—inform our definitions of who we are in the present and have real implications and applicability for actions taken by us or in our name to shape the future.

Your forefathers worked hard, fought hard, and died hard to make this Empire for you. Don't let them look down from heaven, and see you loafing about with hands in your pockets doing nothing to keep it up.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

Not needlessly to confound the herald with the historian, and begin a relation by a pedigree, I shall content myself to inform you [only gives, thankfully, his mother and father].

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

Therefore I summon ageTo grant youth's heritage.

Open my heart, and you will seeGraved inside of it, "Italy."

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us,Burns, Shelley, were with us—they watch from their graves!

You can take us out of Arcadia, but you cannot take Arcadia out of us." Nicholas D. Kokonis, psychologist and author of Arcadia, My Arcadia and Out of Arcadia: The American Odyssey of Angelo Vlahos

Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy".

Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn,That while a lassie she had worn,In longitude tho' sorely scanty,It was her best, and she was vauntie.

I light my candle from their torches.

Things that happened hundreds of years ago are very much a part of your thinking right now...The past lives in us.

Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.

church that he guessed must have stood square on this land for at least a thousand years; more likely fifteen hundred. Wrapped

All that will remain of us is what is written down.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? —Cicero, Orator, 46 BC

The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.

Weep for Manetheren. Weep for what is lost forever.

Blood of our blood mixed with the old blood, raised by an ancient blood not ours.

La sangre alimenta a la sangre. La sangre llama a la sangre. La sangre es, fue y será por los siglos de los siglos.

You could forget who you were if you forgot where you came from, and sometimes the innkeeper's daughter from Emond's Field seemed a stranger to her.

Si ello no basta para refrenarte, te prometo que haré que maldigas el primer beso que intercambiaron tu padre y tu madre.