Quotes About Heritage

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.

W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are passed on.

The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.

A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.

At a time India was known as golden bird because of its huge amount of gold assets. Let's make India once again the same golden bird full of innovation and technology.

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you.

I was a Southerner and had the map of Dixie on my tongue.

Brothers, if we believe that we shall arise, already we have arisen. What should we be without faith? Not to us, as to other nations, has a country been given to which we may cling; a home, where we may tarry; rest, that our hearts may wax fat! Not for peace have we been the chosen among the nations. Wandering is our habitation, trouble our heritage, God our home.

These values are 'distinctly European' because they were thought out, articulated and refined in the part of the planet that tends to be described as 'Europe proper', and their articulation and refinement cannot be separated from the course of Europe's history.

The cost of survival of the lineage may be a lifetime of discomfort.

The best prophet of the future is our past.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.