Quotes About Heritage

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

place is not just where one happens to find oneself. Place is imbued with history, humanity, and power—the complex relationships and interactions that make us who we are.