Heirlooms Quotes

• No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

  Theodore Bikel

  Art, Past, Architecture

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• Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

  William Faulkner

  Sweet, Memories, Past

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• Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Different, Ornaments, May

  Elizabeth Aston (2003). “Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel”, Touchstone

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• Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an antique. If this antique is preserved and deemed precious, it could be passed down as a family heirloom.

  Cee Lo Green

  Appreciation, Antiques, Timeless

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Above all, think of life as a prototype. We can conduct experiments, make discoveries, and change our perspectives. We can look for opportunities to turn processes into projects that have tangible outcomes. We can learn how to take joy in the things we create whether they take the form of a fleeting experience or an heirloom that will last for generations.

  Tim Brown

  Creativity, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Forests, Ancestry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.221, Penguin

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• The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

  Saul Griffith

  Years, People, Design

  "Built to Last Share". GOOD Magazine Interview, www.good.is. January 14, 2010.

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• I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.

  Jodi Picoult

  Together, Cracks, Vases

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.

  Will Self

  Thinking, Shining, Littles

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• He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a nation heirloom.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Baseball, Party, Drinking

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• I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation. - Tobias Eaton

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Pain, Father

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• In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

  Saul Griffith

  Mean, Long, Design

  "Built to Last". GOOD Magazine Interview, www.good.is. January 14, 2010.

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• She wore white heirloom lace about her throat And in her hair a bright golden feather A pearl like a plum hung ripe from her neck But her smile fetched ten gold together

  Shannon Hale

  Hair, White, Together

  Shannon Hale (2012). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.272, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Responsibility, Self, Law

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• You must never allow something that happened to you to become a morbidly treasured heirloom that you carry, show people, put back in its black velvet pouch and then tuck back into your jacket where you can keep it close to your heart.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Heart, People, Black

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• Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Church, Persecution

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.5323, Bible Study Steps

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• Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted?

  Henry Van Dyke

  Suffering, Generations, Heritage

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• When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Past, Compassion, Names

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan

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• Yes, your jewelry choices make a difference. When you invest in ethical, heirloom-quality jewelry, you're also investing in the future. Your purchase supports a creative community of like-minded humanitarians, out there doing important work.

  Zoe Helene

  Differences, Choices, Support

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• I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.

  Dennis Miller

  Teenager, Insulting, Auctions

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• Look at our farmers markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an agricultural nation, but that we have lost touch with. Bringing all these back helps us connect to our roots, our communities and helps us feed America the proper way.

  Jose Andres

  Roots, America, Community

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• I need it! I need it! It's a royal heirloom!" "Adrian?" "What are you doing here?" "Looking for you. Come on, we need to go. I'll drive you home." "No, I can't. Not until we get it. He stole it!

  Richelle Mead

  Home, Needs, Royal

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• GMO agriculture will probably save the world in this century. But in the developed world, where few people are haunted by the specter of famine, people are free to fetishize heirloom tomatoes and worry about the provenance of what sits on their dinner tables.

  Annalee Newitz

  Gmos, Agriculture, Worry

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My message is use grass-fed beef, use heirloom pork varieties, use organic chickens, wait until wild salmon or wild seafood are in season, smoke organic vegetables.

  Steven Raichlen

  Vegetables, Waiting, Pork

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

  Zac Posen

  Garden, Different, Neighbor

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