Quotes About Heritage

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

I don't consider myself just a black man. I consider myself a brotha. I love my people.

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

I man don't come red, I come Black

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.