Quotes About Heritage

The flag of our Union forever!

Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-reed The stripes forever gleam; Snow-white and soul-white - The good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright - The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

With him for a sire, and her for a dam What should I be, but just what I am?

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.

A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.

It runs in the blood like wooden legs.

Noble fathers have noble children.

He's a chip o' th' old block.

All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.

I never realized that there was history, close at hand, beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed.

Born of a noble father and a saintly mother, President Hinckley learned as a young boy the truths of the restored gospel from his faithful parents. He came to respect deeply and value highly his pioneer heritage.