Quotes about Heritage

My mum gave me pretty good genes in that department. She had gorgeous skin. That good English complexion. She never seemed to have a blemish that I knew of.

I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.

All of our people all over the country—except the pure-blooded Indians—are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have

Sons are indeed a heritage from the LORD, children, a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons born in one's youth. Happy is the man who has filled his quiver with them. Such men will never be put to shame when they speak with their enemies at the city gate. (Ps. 127:3-5)

American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come from, and they get compartmentalized.

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.