Quotes About Heritage

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.

The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.

In the German tongue, in the Polish townScraped flat by the rollerOf wars, wars, wars ...

All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.

In the end, it all comes down to the Blood...

Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled Scots wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed Or to victorie.

Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

Culture is coded wisdom

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.