Quotes About Heritage

When the faith dies, the culture dies, the civilization dies, the people die.

Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.

Musee de l'Homme.

But it's a tradition, as if that alone is reason enough. Slavery and buying your wife were traditions, too.

The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times.

By the end of October, the night riders had forced out all but a handful of the 1,098 members of the African American community - who left in their wake abandoned homes and schools, stores and livestock, and harvest-ready crops standing in the fields. Overnight, their churches stood empty, the rooms where they used to sing "River of Jordan" and "Go Down Moses" now suddenly, eerily quiet.

What I have given you is the most important thing a father can give," Isaac told Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond. What he had given them, he said, was "a good name.

We are the Edema Ruh, and the thing we value most every man possesses. You can tell us your story.

Tradition, my boy, and superstition. They are one and the same, anyway.

Gods of my fathers," Deoch said reverently. "Keep her always so: unchanging, past my understanding, and safe from harm.

A veces los nombres se basan en otros más antiguos. Cuanto más antiguo es el nombre, más cerca está de la verdad.

Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

I mean one can be so remote in spirit from one's actual father -or mother- it's as though one doesn't belong to them. Spiritually," he dared, "one can be someone else's child.

We would all like to believe that we came from nowhere but ourselves, every gesture is our own. But then we find we belong to the history and fate of a long line of beings that also may have wished to be free.

You see, there's a saying carved in Old English on a wooden plank on one of the oldest structures built in America. This is Tangier Island. As it goes, so do we. —Have you actually seen it? I asked. —You don't see things like that. You feel them, as in all important things; they arrive, they come into your dreams. For instance, he added slyly, you're dreaming now.

Wilma Mankiller, chief of the Cherokee Nation, submitted the eighty-five-letter Cherokee alphabet, hoping that her language would still be spoken a hundred years from now.

Factio vestri aevum, non vestri calceus amplitudo. And

A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined.

Only an Adams could convert naïveté into bravado.

One generation shall commend your works to another" (v. 4).

The English are a great race,' he told me once. 'But they have a deep down belief that they are the best of all peoples.

Moses reminds the Israelites of their history and God's laws.

What do you think it's worth, Lassiter, finding and returning the priceless heritage of a nation?" "How about a Boy Scout merit badge and a thank-you note from Yeltsin?" Above us