Quotes About Heritage

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

Wales: The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it!

Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

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our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

Grandad's voice boomed across the yard. 'This is the United States of America,' he said. 'You don't seem to understand that, Penny, so let me explain. In America, here is how we operate. We work for what we want, and we get ahead. We never take no for an answer, and we deserve the rewards of our perseverance... We Sinclairs are a grand, old family. That is something to be proud of. Our traditions and values form the bedrock on which future generations stand.

White is an identity marker for the deracinated people who have no religion.

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma

the elves and dwarves were considered the greater races, the humans and blighters the lesser ones. He said the shorter-lived races would be thriving when the others were gone and just legends. In his mind, the great races think only of themselves, the lesser live and build for their children and grandchildren's world.

It's a bad idea to try to prevent people from knowing their own history. If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.

One doesn't come to Italy for niceness, one comes for life!

I believed in a return to Nature once. But how can we return to Nature when we have never been with her? Today, I believe that we must discover Nature. After many conquests we shall attain simplicity. It is our heritage.

Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions—her own soul.

One knew that she worshipped the past, and that the instinctive wisdom the past can alone bestow had descended upon her - that wisdom to which we give the clumsy name of aristocracy

Every barbarian must give the Acropolis its chance once.