Quotes About Heritage

the words carved above the cathedral of my childhood

It's not MAN who is the scourge of the world, it's a single culture. One culture out of hundreds of thousands of cultures. Our culture.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal, did you know that?

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal, did you know that?" I

The Dolly's around here can't be seen to coddle a snitch's family --- that's the always been our way. We're old blood, us people, and our ways was set firm long before hot shot baby Jesus ever even burped milk'n sh*& yellow.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

"…My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi…"

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

My family is Jamaican and Cuban, but we would go to see our Jamaican side every summer for three months and every Christmas. One of the things I used to love was climbing trees and picking ackee fruit for breakfast.

I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

I have always loved things that are timeless and get better with age.

You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity.

We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.