Heritage Quotes - Page 25

• Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Jesus, Differences

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• My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

  Chanel Iman

  Fun, Listening, Sound

  "Exclusive: Chanel Iman Behind-the-Scenes for Skullcandy". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 28, 2012.

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• In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

  Jane Smiley

  Heart, Identity, Way

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• The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that like all ethnic groups they have their own racial elements distributed in their own proportions; like all or most ethnic groups they have their 'look,' a part of their cultural heritage that both preserves and expresses their cultural solidarity...they have developed a special racial sub-type and a special pattern of facial and bodily expression.

  Carleton S. Coon

  Race, Expression, Special

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• Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

  Albert J. Nock

  Spiritual, Common, Environment

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• Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.

  Keith O'Brien

  Christian, Taken, Squares

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• When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.

  Jeff Garcia

  Hard Work, Thinking, Toughness

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• The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

  Gordon Gee

  Art, Ohio State, Quiet

  "Of Leibovitz and Lear" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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• There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

  James D. Watson

  Humanity, Intellectual, Evolution

  James D. Watson (2009). “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science”, p.326, Vintage

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• Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.

  Linda Sunshine

  Sibling, Stupid, Aunt

  Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.26, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

  Cicely Tyson

  Believe, Role Models, Effort

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• Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible.

  Michel Seuphor

  Munich, Truth Is, Well Known

  Michel Seuphor (1964). “Abstract Painting: 50 Years of Accomplishment, from Kandinsky to the Present”

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• My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

  Hunter Hayes

  Growing Up, Grandmother, Louisiana

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• To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Thinking, Singing, Proud

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• We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat weapons are necessarily part of that heritage.

  Mark Udall

  Hunting, Gun, Self

  "Sens. Mark Udall, Michael Bennet Call For Stricter Gun Control Laws". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• The partition of India in 1947 legitimized the forces of masculinist nationalism and enabled hatred for the "other" to irreparably mutilate a shared anti-colonial legacy and cultural heritage so systematically that the wounds inflicted by the partition are yet to heal.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Hatred, India, Legacy

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.

  Sharon Cameron

  Giving Up, Knowing, Knows

  Source: bookpage.com

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

  Stanley Krippner

  Victim, Benefactors, Has Beens

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• I love the outdoors, I love climbing mountains. But I also like to walk down the street in New York in the fall and go to a bar. So what I require of a jacket is different, but it still has that heritage.

  Sam Heughan

  New York, Fall, Climbing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.

  Sharon Cameron

  Writing, Genealogy

  Source: bookpage.com

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• My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.

  Wally Lamb

  Italian, Proud, Surface

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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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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• If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure out how you put people in possession of their heritage. To do that you have to talk about how they're being taught, and the imagination of community the people who are running our government have.

  Robert Hass

  Running, Government, Imagination

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

  Ben Harper

  Life Lesson, Boys, Discovery

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• Heritage saves no one.

  David Wilkerson

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