Quotes about Heritage

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

Even a bad father can leave an inheritance. Only a good father can leave a heritage.

Perhaps parents' greatest heritage to pass on to their children is the ability to perceive the multitude of God's daily blessings and to respond with continual gratitude. We should be "abounding in thanksgiving" (Colossians 2:7).

You can become interested too late to realize how important your family tree is. The

Ona and Yagan people.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.

Properly speaking, a culture does not have a tradition; it is a tradition.

Any attempt to vary from the past in such a way as to cut the past off, causing it to be forgotten, has little cultural importance.