Quotes About Heritage

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

For all that fair is, is by nature good;That is a sign to know the gentle blood.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

Reata," he said two decades later

In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or power will keep a mistress and a few girlfriends on the side. Only in America, still suffering from its grotesque, hypocritical Puritan heritage, do we persist in attempting to deny and repeal a million years of basic primate biology.

Keep it like it was.

I like the name. Tukuhnikivats—in the language of the Utes "where the sun lingers.

It is always unsafe to detach a custom from its hold on past events, treating it as an isolated fact to be simply disposed of by some plausible explanation.

Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.

The beer that made Milwaukee famous.

There are only two lasting bequests that we can hope to give our children — roots and wings.

The whole inspiration of our life as a nation flows out from the waving folds of this banner.

Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories, and love.

The Pyramids first, which in Egypt were laid;Next Babylon's Gardens, for Amytis made;Then Mausolos' Tomb of affection and guilt;Fourth, the Temple of Dian in Ephesus built;The Colossus of Rhodes, cast in brass, to the Sun;Sixth, Jupiter's Statue, by Phidias done;The Pharos of Egypt comes last, we are told,Or the Palace of Cyrus, cemented with gold.

This day [Passover] shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations.

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

The cedars of Lebanon.

Black power… is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to begin to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations and to support those organizations. It is a call to reject the racist institutions and values of this society.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

Is not this the carpenter's son?

Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day!

Brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel.