Quotes about Heritage

Wasn't forgetfulness a gift of the gods to the ancient world? Without it. Life would be intolerable, wouldn't it? Yes, but the Jews live by other rules. For a Jew, nothing is more important than memory. He is bound to his origins by memory. It is memory that connects him to Abraham, Moses and Rabbi Akiva.

This is the bread of affliction which our forefathers ate in the land of Egypt. Let all those who are hungry come and eat with us. Let all those who are in need come and share our meal. This year we are here. Next year may we all be in the land of Israel.

For memory is a blessing: it creates bonds rather than destroys them.

Homemaking is a passion you can pass on from generation to generation.

This is my son, mine own Telemachus.

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers. (1 CHRONICLES 6:19B)

The heirloom biblical wheat of our ancestors is something modern humans never eat.

He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, Good fences make good neighbors.

Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.