Quotes about Heritage
What was left of the little world he had grown up in, and whose standards had bent and bound him?
— Edith Wharton
Here was no retrospective pretense of an opulent past, such as the other Invaders were given to parading before the bland but undeceived subject race. The Spraggs had been plain people and had not yet learned to be ashamed of it.
— Edith Wharton
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
— Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.
— James Faust
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.
— Joseph Brodsky
No civilization has ever survived unless the elders saw it their duty to pass on gifts of Spirit to the young ones.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
As Jaroslav Pelikan so wisely put it years ago, " Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living, and I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives Tradition such a bad name."1
— Fr. Richard Rohr
I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.
— Elie Wiesel
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spoke: the faith and morals hold which Milton held.
— William Wordsworth
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
— Woodrow Wilson
For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.
— Davis Bunn