Quotes About Heritage

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Eisenhower also sounded the clarion call for generational responsibility: 'As we peer into society's future, we--you and I, and our government--must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without asking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come.

History is a story we learn, add on our own chapter, and then pass to the next generation.

The heirs of Jefferson and Madison would be the Democratic-Republicans, the heirs of Hamilton and Adams would be the Federalists. But the heirs of Washington would be all Americans.

our place is known by the songs that give birth, name us and bring us home.

the first responsibility of a human being is to be a better ancestor.

their nation with the same national identity and adopting the same name? Only Israel can make that claim.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

Blood is thicker than water.

Sheik Muftah Culture

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future

Architecture is the work of nations.

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears

A Connally! Always remember that I raised you to be a Connally!

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

knowledge of Jewish culture, Jewish symbols, Jewish icons and the tradition of Jewish storytelling. It requires an understanding of what the Jews called "midrash.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

Raskob, the son of an Irish mother and a cigar-maker father of Alsatian descent, was a Roman Catholic from a large family, and he would remain a devout Roman Catholic all his life. In 1928 he was a member of the Knights of Malta and a Knight of St. Gregory, and he was generous to the Church. One

Almost every Division I college football team predates the oldest NFL teams by three or four decades. Most schools built their current stadiums before most NFL teams built their first—or second, or third. College football is one of those few passions we have in common with our great-grandparents.

My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.

I am the son of Julius Caesar, and I am consul of Rome. You will not call me boy again.

Notah's wife, who wears the traditional excessive mascara of her people