Heritage Quotes

Part of me shall dwell in my daughter to call upon in times of need of course.

~ Bruce Lee Bond

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

~ Tim Wise

My tongue was handed down to meby datus and katipuneros. The truth ismy mouth is a battlefield thatyou wouldn’t know how to fight in.

~ Danabelle Gutierrez

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.

~ Harold Bloom

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

~ Harold Bloom

Words contain the souls or minds of people in the past; as such, they tell the story of consciousness.

~ Philip Zaleski

The main vehicle for nineteenth-century socialization was the leading textbook used in elementary school. They were so widely used that sections in them became part of the national language. Theodore Roosevelt, scion of an elite New York family, schooled by private tutors, had been raised on the same textbooks as the children of Ohio farmers, Chicago tradesman, and New England fishermen. If you want to know what constituted being a good American from the mid-nineteenth century to World War I, spend a few hours browsing through the sections in the McGuffey Readers.

~ Charles Murray

Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch, Cooterville, Felchville, Dust Rag, Dough Bag, Uranus Ridge, Big Bottom, Hooter Holler, Quickskillet, Buck Wallow, Possum Strut ... We always say a picture speaks a thousand words, but isn’t the opposite equally true?

~ Sol Luckman

Feature in God’s team of trainees and you will play for the winning team! This is your heritage that you will lay hands on the trophy!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We travel to see beautiful places and to meet great souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You gotta look backwards to go forwards.

~ Fennel Hudson

The past informs the present.

~ Fennel Hudson

Preserve the spirit of a ‘lost’ age, when time moved slower.

~ Fennel Hudson

It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.

~ Denis Markell

i lost a whole continent.a whole continent from my memory.unlike all other hyphenated americans my hyphen is made of blood.when africa says hellomy mouth is a heartbreakbecause i have nothing in my tongueto answer her.i don’t know how to say hello to my mother.

~ African-American Ii Nayyirah Waheed

When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.

~ Mike Norton

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

~ Tahir Shah

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.

~ Antonin Scalia

Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. – Norman Mailer

~ Mark Kurlansky

John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.

~ Tony Horwitz

A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality

~ Harold Bloom

Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.

~ Patrick Hennessey

Anecdotes came with his DNA.

~ Chris Matthews

It always matters who the storyteller is. It’s a lens.

~ James Still

The myth is not my own, I have it from my mother. Euripides

~ Joseph Campbell

How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task. How to render back into light-world language the speech-defying pronouncements of the dark? Many failures attest to the difficulties of this life-affirmative threshold.

~ Joseph Campbell

I inherited curiosity from my Dad.

~ Tom Clancy

The author says that one of the difficulties of modern parenting is the uncertainty of what parents are preparing children for. In traditional societies this was clear, as parents prepared children for a society and for roles much like their own. She writes, There is no folk wisdom.

~ Jennifer Senior

They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.

~ Charles Murray

He had to grow his own NCOs.

~ Tom Clancy

In her fury she'd broken into Valencian, indicating the deepest possible roots in the land. I was impressed with how deeply she was from here, in a way I could never imagine being from anywhere, not even my home town.

~ Elisabeth Eaves

I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia.

~ C.s. Lewis

Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at it centre, nor even the smooth functioning of the institutions they house. At its core, a civilization is the texts that are taught in its schools, learned by its students and recollected in times of tribulation.

~ Niall Ferguson

Liberals tend to view traditions, policies, and morals of past generations as arbitrary designs put in place by less enlightened people. Because of this, liberals don't pay much attention to why traditions developed or wonder about possible ramifications of their social engineering.

~ John Hawkins

Pride is instilled. It's what we carry with us every day of our lives.

~ Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good admirals.

~ George Friedman

As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.

~ Sara Sheridan