logo

Quotes About Heritage

Ya-ta-hey (pop. 580) > Tohatchi (pop.
~ Salman Rushdie
and do not speak to me, please, of African Eve or LUCA, the three-and-a-half-billion-year-old blob of goo that was our Last Universal Common Ancestor. I am aware of the family tree of the human race and of pre-Homo sap life on earth and to insist upon those genealogies now would be wilfully to miss my point.
~ Salman Rushdie
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.
~ Roger Clemens
She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.
~ Simone Elkeles, Wild Cards
For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.
~ Gerald R. Ford
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
~ Barack Obama
My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island.
~ Oscar de la Renta
When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.
~ Philip Carr-Gomm
Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
~ Alice Walker
The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.
~ Adolf Hitler
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
~ George Eliot
I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.
~ Bill Starr
The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.
~ Carolyn Rodgers
IT'S OUR AMERICA - DO SOMETHING TO PRESERVE ITS' BEAUTY STRENGTH, AND NATURAL WEALTH
~ Walt Disney
Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
~ Edward Abbey
Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans.
~ Marcie Cohen Ferris
Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious.
~ Narendra Modi
The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
~ Busta Rhymes
Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us, can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.
~ Yvette Clarke
Create your legacy, and pass the baton.
~ Billie Jean King
Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.
~ Richard Dawkins