Heritage Quotes - Page 22

• Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Country, Skills, Treasure

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• I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

  Michael Symon

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Thinking

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• Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.

  Alber Elbaz

  Color, Two, Trying

  Interview with Cathy Horyn, runway.blogs.nytimes.com. June 17, 2007.

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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, Care, Homeless

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• I have no ambition. I just have a very loving duty given to me in my spiritual heritage of the Himalayan Masters who have passed down this duty from generation to generation, perhaps for thousands of generations: The world has misery, the world has suffering. Do what you can to reduce the pain. Do what you can to soothe people's minds. Don't just counsel, Mr. Therapist ... console.

  Swami Veda Bharati

  Spiritual, Pain, Ambition

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• The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in a cacophony of misdirected protests. His task is to remind them of who they are and what they ought to be. Our values are not to be taken from conduct of our adversaries but from the great heritage of our people.

  Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

  Taken, Voice, People

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• A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

  Raj Kapoor

  Men, Roots, Parent

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• I just have to believe that with love for our natural heritage and a firm resolve to preserve it with wisdom and care, we can and will give the American land to our children, not impaired, but enhanced. And in doing this, we'll honor the great and loving God who gave us this land in the first place.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Believe, Land

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage

  Ezra Pound

  Elysium, Dross, Thee

  Cantos no. 81, l. 134 (1948)

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• If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

  John Kitzhaber

  Rivers, Healthy, Environmental

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• The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

  Elaine Morgan

  Believe, Taken, Men

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Descent of Woman”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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• I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Simple, Artist, People

  "Expositions and Developments". Book by Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft, pp. 113-114, 1959.

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• Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Thanksgiving, Land, People

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• I don`t think this has been fully understood by the United States... If you look at India, China and Russia, they all have strong education heritages. Even if you discount 90 percent of the people there as uneducated farmers, you still end up with about 300 million people who are educated. That`s bigger than the U.S. work force.

  Craig R. Barrett

  Strong, Thinking, Russia

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• The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are the gathered wisdom of the race. They are renewed in time of conflict and danger.

  Frederick Osborn

  Life, Spring, Race

  "American Education and Soviet Propaganda".

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• But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.

  Jane Goodall

  Compassion, Order, Spheres

  Jane Goodall (2010). “Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

  Edward Abbey

  Character, Parent, Looks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

  Sherman Alexie

  Inspirational, Basketball, Native American

  "Author Sherman Alexie Talks 'Flight'". Interview with Rebecca Roberts, www.npr.org. April 11, 2007.

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• Heritage does not equal destiny.

  Cate Tiernan

  Destiny, Doe, Equal

  Cate Tiernan (2008). “The Calling: Book Seven”, p.187, Penguin

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• He who denies his heritage, has no heritage

  Khalil Gibran

  Deny

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• Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have abundance of good because it is your divine heritage. Your creator wants you that way.

  Catherine Ponder

  Men, Divinity, Want

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• Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.

  Marla Gibbs

  Culture, Alive, Fads

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward.

  Doug Stanhope

  Moving, Baggage, Tradition

  "Doug Stanhope: Oslo - Burning the Bridge to Nowhere". Comedy, 2011.

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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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• Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. That love is the heritage, and cousin to death. That the only love can only be the first love, the only death the last, the only life within, and the only word . . . choked forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love, Dream, Cousin

  Jack Kerouac (2017). “Maggie Cassidy”, p.22, Penguin UK

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