Heritage Quotes

• 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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• It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

  Branch Rickey

  Character, Honor, Behinds

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Profound, Helping, Rich

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• You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

  Robbie Robertson

  Waiting, Stumble Upon

  "Robbie Robertson: Native-American experience in music". www.cnn.com. July 6, 1999.

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• A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Mother, Children, People

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• A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

  Karl Marx

  People

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• A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Distance, Men, Civilization

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• We honor the heritage of all who come here, no matter where they come from, because we trust in our country's genius for making us all Americans - one nation under God.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Honor, Genius

  Address to the Nation on Immigration Reform, delivered 15 May 2006

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• UNESCO provides protection for the great cultural institutions. There is something called the intangible cultural heritage list. And the Italians want to put Neapolitan pizza on it. But in order to do that, you have to show that whatever it is that you're trying to protect is under threat. And pizza is totally under threat from Pizza Hut and Domino's...

  Peter Sagal

  Order, Trying, Lists

  "Panel Round One". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

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• If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage.

  William J. Brennan

  Air, Order, Dignity

  "Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence". Book by Brennan Center for Justice, 1997.

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• My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Grounding, Has Beens

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to stay true to your heritage, that's what your brand is about.

  Alice Temperley

  Stay True, Brands

  "Alice Temperley: 'It's going to be a bit Guy Bourdin'". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2014.

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• It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

  David R. Brower

  Men, Protect, Living Things

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• Or 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.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Learning, Ideas

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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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• As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

  Frances Conroy

  Birthday, Ethos, Age

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• Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Law, Study

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• Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Freedom, Rights

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.219, Best Books on

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• Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.

  James Lafferty

  Reality, Glasses, Needed

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• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Doors, Land

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Wish, Ongoing

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• Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!

  Lord Byron

  Woe, Lord

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.3230, Delphi Classics

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• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

  Country, Diversity, Adoption

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• Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

  Ernest Istook

  Religious, Government, Creating

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• In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

  Alex Haley

  Who We Are, Lineage, Hunger

  Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

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