Quotes About Heritage

It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionist or non-Zionist, Ashkenazi or Sephardic - all these will not exist without Israel.

I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.

We established Israel as a Jewish country. I want to provide an Israel that is a Jewish, Zionist country.

I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.

In my DNA, the Zionist gene is extremely strong.

I am a Zionist.

I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to America when she was five with my grandmother and grandfather, and that was the family I knew. Everybody sang; everybody had songs all the time, and they loved music.

The easiest way to subjugate a people is to erase a culture. I've seen it in war zones.

We've been doing a 40-year end zone celebration of the victories won by our parents and grandparents. We haven't shepherded our history. We haven't taught it so others can learn from it and implement the lessons.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

A Bostonian - an American, broadly speaking.

I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.

My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.

Noble ancestry makes a poor dish at table.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

Culture is something you cannot buy, something you cannot import, something you cannot learn or produce at will. A writer, an artist or musician cannot sit down and say 'Now I will produce culture.' Culture is something that evolves out of the simple, enduring elements of everyday life; elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a nation.

The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.

The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots, And the Cabots talk only to God.