Quotes About Heritage

Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.

When I hear of the destruction of a species ... I just feel as if all the the works of some great writer had perished.

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

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It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.

Then out spake brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods... Lays of Ancient Rome

Generations passe while some trees stand, and old Families last not three Oaks.

History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another.

All great peoples are conservative.

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Al wat de mensheid heeft gedaan, gedacht, gewonnen, of is geweest, dat ligt als door toverkunst vastgelegd in boeken.

It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of the Irish mind.

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God....

As early as June of 1981, Brighton Beach was known as Little Odessa, with a quarter of its businesses owned by Soviet Jews.

My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something; another was teaching classical languages; another was a captain of a battleship of the Black Navy; and still another was a chemist and icthyologist.

My grandad was a submariner; my mum's dad was in the navy.

My grandmother's mother was from near Naples, so I love Italy, but I feel completely Argentinian.

Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.

My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.

Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.

I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.

I'm from Limburg, near the German border.

My dad grew up in a little place near Charleston called Moncks Corner.