Quotes About Heritage

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad was alive to see it. He'd be as proud as I am.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen a lot of great players working at the Maccabi Games.

If someone starts talking about pride today I'm going to vomit... The Apache nation had pride and look where they are. The bushmen of Kalahari have pride and look where they are.

I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

It is clear that all the valuable things, material, spiritual, and moral, which we receive from society can be traced back through countless generations to certain creative individuals. The use of fire, the cultivation of edible plants, the steam engine—each was discovered by one man.