Quotes About Heritage

Canada is built on dead beavers.

It was still with them, the century-old futility of trying to protect what was theirs while watching it being taken away. It clung to her people like a stain that couldn't be removed.

Vicky didn't say anything for a moment. "Red Cliff Canyon is a sacred area," she said.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

Every inch of land there is so contested," I observed, more to myself than to him. "How many lives have been lost fighting over Jerusalem? Yet it is not special in terms of architecture, or location, or works of art.

The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts.....Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind.

They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things.

For I am fighting for the old days, the old ways which I love so much, but which, I fear, are now gone forever, no matter how the die may fall. For, win or lose, we lose just the same. - Ashley Wilkes, Gone with the Wind

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything...for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts, and don't you be forgetting it! 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for–worth dying for.

Was Tara still standing? Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia?

Well--you know how the Wilkes are. They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things.

Twill come to you, this love of land.

The next year, their first child was born and they named her Katie Scarlett

two of Ma's darkies

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

'Brand India' is built of 5 Ts - talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.

High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.

The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage.

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.