Quotes About Heritage

Algerian-born writer Albert Camus elegantly expressed this notion in the famous quotation, "Ma patrie, c'est la langue française" ("My homeland is the French language").

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

Nuestra herencia de tambores batientes ha de continuar latiendo en la sangre de estas generaciones. Es lo único, Yarince, que permaneció: la resistencia.

He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back — its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

John MacKechnie's Gaelic Without Groans

A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.

Always remember where we come from, how we got here, and Who led us into the warmth of the sunshine.

Never forget who you are; a daughter of a Heavenly Father. You have royal heritage, and anyone who makes you feel like less that is not a man,husband,father, or friend,simply someone who is afraid of you because he knows who you are, but doesn't know who he is.

The reason to have history is to be able to say, 'This is where you came from. This is what it cost. This is what happened to us. This is what we fought against. This is what we did when we won. This is who we are.

According to the wisdom of Indian Country on my own continent, it takes four generations to heal one act of violence. What

I began to sense that a big part of our problem is simple ignorance of what the oldest cultures have to teach.

Suddenly, it seems ridiculous that we just came from a city airport named for Columbus, a terrible navigator who insisted to his dying day that he was in India—which is why people here are called Indians. As the Native women in Houston said, "It could have been worse—he could have thought he was in Turkey.

I discovered that Native languages, Cherokee and others--like Bengali and other ancient languages--didn't have gendered pronouns like "he" and "she.

Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that kitchen discover that we were taught more about ancient Greece and Rome than about the history of the land we live on. We learned about the pyramid builders of Egypt but not the pyramid builders of the Mississippi River.

I think my actions,like those of my associates,were possible in this form only in vienna. Our heritage was the vienna secession and Austrian expression,and that,along with the violent disapproval of our work,explains not only its frequently overwrought and agressive character,but also its radical psychological insights.

Patriotism ruins history.

I am my father's daughter, and my Father is the King of Leaving

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

I will never get over being thankful to them; I hope that you never get over being thankful to them. I hope that we will always remember them....Let us read again and again, and read to our children or our children's children, the accounts of those who suffered so much.

great mysteries that the Poles have been able to keep their language, culture and religion alive despite inhabiting an area which has usually belonged to either Germany, Russia or Austria, or sometimes to all three.

First, we must recognize his own sense of continuity with his heritage. Paul sees himself and his churches as being in a direct line with the people of God in the Old Testament; and despite his deep convictions about the radical implications of the coming of Christ and the Spirit, he regularly reaffirms that continuity. He includes a primarily Gentile church in the events of the exodus: "all our forefathers were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea" (1 Cor 10:1–2).

A book is a sign of the age-old effort to maintain what one generation hands on to another...