Cultural Heritage Quotes

• A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

  Marcus Garvey

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a
  profound power to help build our nation

  Nelson Mandela

  Profound, Heritage, Helping

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• A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

  Steve Berry

  Educational, Effort, Legacy

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• Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

  Erich Fromm

  Heritage, Proud, Whole

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and of our society. Providing us with a unique way to learn about people of other cultures, it allows us to discover all that we have in common. At its best, art can beautify our cities, encourage economic development and social change, and profoundly affect the ways we live our lives.

  William J. Clinton

  Art, Unique, Other Cultures

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• We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural narrowness.

  Stanley Krippner

  Heritage, Victim, Benefactors

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• Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

  Jim Rohn

  Money, Independent, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 03, 2016

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• People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

  George Lucas

  Art, Real, Inspiration

  "George Lucas offers a compelling argument against George Lucas" by Sean O'Neal, news.avclub.com. September 1, 2011.

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• Our Nation has a diverse and extremely rich cultural heritage. It is a source of pride and strength to millions of Americans who look to the arts for inspiration, communication and the opportunity for creative self-expression.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Art, Communication, Inspiration

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

  Hugh Masekela

  Legacy, Culture, African Music

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• We too need to protect, guide, and encourage our young people, helping them to build a society worthy of their great spiritual and cultural heritage.  Specifically, we need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected.  And we need to care for our young people, not allowing them to be robbed of hope and condemned to life on the streets.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Children, People

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• India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, People, History

  Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.27, Penguin Books India

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• For Indigenous peoples , the impact of separating us from our heritage goes directly to the heart that pumps life through our peoples. To expect a people to be able to enjoy their culture without their cultural heritage and their sacred belongings is equivalent to amputating their legs and digging up the ground and asking them to run a marathon.

  Mick Dodson

  Leadership, Running, Heart

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• My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Heritage, Ancient

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters.

  Dalai Lama

  Relationship, Sister, Wise

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• In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Play, Identity, Roles

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

  E. M. Forster

  Liberty, Heritage, Care

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• We are experiencing new problems every day and whatever we do adds to the richness of our cultural heritage as long as it has man as its centre

  Steven Biko

  Men, Long, Add

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• Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

  Sigmund Freud

  Culture, Cost, Heritage

  Freud, Sigmund (2014). “An Outline of Psychoanalysis”, p.60, Read Books Ltd

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• Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

  Carlo Petrini

  Food, Government, Cooking

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• Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.

  Tessa Jowell

  Doubt, Heritage, Literature

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• I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.

  James A. Michener

  People, Adoption, Heritage

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• The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own.

  Harlan Lane

  Children, Acceptance, Parenting

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• Support your public library! It is a treasure and a legacy that will provide entertainment, information, a sense of community, and real continuity from one generation to the next, and the next after that. So long as we keep reading, and reading to our children, there will be hope for our shared cultural heritage and the future of our world.

  John Lescroart

  Children, Real, Reading

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• Sure, companies say they're sensitive to their employees' cultural heritages, but show up on casual Friday wearing a necklace made from the ears of your vanquished enemies and all hell breaks loose.

  Brad Wilkerson

  Friday, Enemy, Heritage

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