Quotes About Heritage

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.

Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I,who were both Jewish, were going over toidentify the remains of a man who was soanti-Semitic.

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.

It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers.

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went