Quotes About Heritage

Leave it as it is. You cannot improve it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. Keep it for your children, your children's children, and for all who come after you.

Hoosier born and bred, he claimed, from an old South Bend family that made its old money in the oil business. Or maybe it was coal. Or banking.

by 1900, the tribes owned less than 2 percent of the land they once possessed. Entire languages had already disappeared—more than a loss of words, a loss of a way to look at the world.

We might be tempted to think that our democratic heritage automatically protects us from such threats. This is a misguided reflex. Our own tradition demands that we examine history to understand the deep sources of tyranny, and to consider the proper responses to it. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.

We might be tempted to think that our democratic heritage automatically protects us from such threats. This is a misguided reflex.

The last Lithuanian grand duke who even knew the Lithuanian language died the year Columbus discovered America.

Things become bearers of memory and information, especially when enhanced by stories that expand their capacity to carry meaning.

wove spiritual beliefs, cultural values, and historical

Without Ruth, there would be no record.

Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down.

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

My ancestors are smiling at me imperial, can you say the same?

We are, in fact, a nation of immigrants. It's just a question of whether we're going to celebrate that and invest in it, or whether we're going to ignore it and deny it.

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You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

I was brought up in Jamaica when people had to occupy themselves and entertain each other.

May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

The Japanese people have a strong connection with nature and the ocean and a huge respect for them.

I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.

My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime.

There might be the odd person in my family who was an artist down the line, but no one in my immediate family is an actor of any kind.

I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.