Heritage Quotes - Page 2

• Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Views, Self

  "The Sunday Times", May 10, 1992.

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• Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

  George Washington

  Education, Wisdom, Religious

  Noah Webster, George Washington (1806). “Elements of useful knowledge: containing a historical and geographical account of the United States”, p.217

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• I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture.

  Michael Flatley

  Culture, Proud

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  Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.229

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• Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Men, Class

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• Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Firsts, Bees, Wasps

  Jean-Henri Fabre (1998). “The Passionate Observer: Writings from the World of Nature”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Men, Absence

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• The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Names, Reform, Theft

  Interview with Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February 2003.

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• I am proud of my heritage and my family.

  Brian Sandoval

  Proud, My Family

  "91 Days to Decide: Nevada Candidate Under Fire for 'Hispanic' Comment" by Judson Berger, www.foxnews.com. August 3, 2010.

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• If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

  Harri Holkeri

  Different, Use, Violence

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• In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.

  Paul Prudhomme

  New Orleans, Cooking, Louisiana

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• This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.

  Allen Weinstein

  Desire, Fierce, Awareness

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• British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Self, Ideas

  "Are the British really the worst-dressed tourists?" by Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2007.

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• I'm very proud of my heritage.

  Wilford Brimley

  Proud

  "Now It's J.J. Abrams' Turn to 'Trek'". Interview with Danielle Berrin, jewishjournal.com. May 6, 2009.

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• The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

  Lesley Garrett

  Musical, Yorkshire, Wide

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• The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism.

  Sonny Perdue

  Tourism, Driving, Type

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• So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.

  Margaret Whiting

  Music, Education, Teacher

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• My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Pregnancy, Commitment, Israel

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President”

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• We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

  Abdul Kalam

  Young Generation, Giving, India

  "Lok Sabha Debates" by India. Parliament, (p. 45), 2003.

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• Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Powerful, Past

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• Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

  Natan Sharansky

  Japan, Community, Democracy

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• It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Past, Magazines, May

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• Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

  Bruce Catton

  Sunset, Eye, Glowing

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• We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Country, Long, Use

  "Exit Interview: Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Country, War

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)

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