Quotes About Heritage

Old houses mended

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.

My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent.

Indian saying in Saskatchewan

TheSc ots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.

I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half-dozen chickens, is good quality.

Let us be French as the Americans are English.

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.

Twenty generations ago - around the year 1390 - you had 1,048,576 ancestors. In the 21st generation of your family that number will double again.

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.

Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

Ancient custom has the force of law.

Land of hope and glory, Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee,who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.

Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.

Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.

For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian, Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations, He remains an Englishman.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.